Hello.
There is quite an important difference between "Standard Postal Delivery" and "USPS" fees for orders to Europe. For small orders (1 book, or 2 thin books), the "Standard Postal Delivery" option is available, but it becomes unavailable as soon as (I guess) the total weight goes over a set amount. That means that it's sometimes cheaper to make 2 or 3 separate orders instead of ordering all the items at once.
A problem I have had when fiddling with this is that it takes a lot of trials and errors to determine the best way to combine the orders. It can already be hard when you only want books, but if you add in card packs, flip-maps, and other similar elements, it can get really complex.
Obviously, adding an option to automatically determine how best to divide a big order into smaller packages to minimize the shipping fees would be good ... but that would require quite a lot of work I guess. A good compromise might be to at least indicate the estimated weight of each item (as well as the weight limit for "Standard Postal Delivery"). Is there currently any way to get more information on item weights and this weight limit?
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Obviously, adding an option to automatically determine how best to divide a big order into smaller packages to minimize the shipping fees would be good ... but that would require quite a lot of work I guess. A good compromise might be to at least indicate the estimated weight of each item (as well as the weight limit for "Standard Postal Delivery"). Is there currently any way to get more information on item weights and this weight limit?
From what Staff have said this is pretty high on Gary's agenda. To get the system to ship in the cheapest way, be that one shipment, or many.....
I got it working for subscription shipments, but implementing it for regular store orders is actually pretty complex. It's fairly high on my to do list, but right now it's been eclipsed by Pathfinder Society stuff.
Poor Gary, not enough tenticles to do it with.
Chief Technical Officer
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A good compromise might be to at least indicate the estimated weight of each item (as well as the weight limit for "Standard Postal Delivery"). Is there currently any way to get more information on item weights and this weight limit?
The weight limit for Standard Delivery outside of the US is 4 pounds. Telling you the product weight would be somewhat misleading, because we also factor in the weight of the box and the shipping materials, and those vary based on what size the combined products are. The better way to handle this is to just do the math for you—if your package goes over 4 pounds, we should split it into two boxes (assuming that saves you money). As Gary said, we've got that working fro subscriptions, and we'll be implementing it for other orders in the near future.
(By the way, a standard 100-page RPG usually weighs around a pound.)
Thank you for all the answers!