FYI: US -> International rates go up this month

Just a heads up that rates using the USPS to ship internationally are going up this month, some fairly substantially.

A bad situation is getting worse:

USPS International Shipping Rates for 2020 - Stamps.com Blog .

 

It perplexes me how shipping from the UK to the US is £6, but from the US to the UK is $18. USPS doesn't do anything special besides play volleyball with your package for three days in their "sorting" facility, so where's that extra $9.50 value? And now it's going up higher? Stupid.

It looks based on that chart that you can save money if you make the package 4 pounds instead of three. Baffling.

 

How much will it cost to chop up "you-know-who" into separate pieces the size of a Big Mac, and send him to Moscow...?

(Failing that, whatabout a large box turtle, the size of, say, a certain senatorial representative from the Commonwealth of Kentucky...?)

Priority Mail, please...

 

It says Sunday, Jan. 26th 2020 rates. I didn't see July 2020 mentioned. Did I miss something?