[Mothy]

Shipping to the Southern Corner of the world (Australia and New Zealand) is always going to be expensive and delayed - something we take into account every time we look to place an order.

The local suppliers are smart - they pitch their prices for parts around the same or higher than the landed cost here for our orders from you - it's the price we pay for instant supply. We can't change the tax and your shipping probably won't get any faster - nearly all of it comes by Air anyway.

So perhaps we can get smarter about how it's shipped.

How about adding an option for overseas orders to be bulk shipped at the end of month. All these items for a country are picked, packed and held, then on the last day of the month they are all packed onto a single pallet and shipped - the cost of shipping a single pallet of items would be cheaper than the individual package shipping costs. Ship to a trusted destination where the pallet is unpacked and the individual packages put into the domestic post.

Slower than USPS International but should be a lot cheaper. Just needs some willing people to be those trusted with unpacking and putting in the local post. Happy to work with you and John to test out the idea and model some sample 'lots' to see it ifs workable. You should be able to get someone in the UK to model it there as well.

Tim