I don't know how you guys have gone with shipping over the last couple of months but I have found the postal service to be deplorable. I've had packages sent to wrong countries-twice !! Express shipping that took 49 days with USPS/Australia Post.
I re-iterate that if it all possible, these items are so expensive, so valuable I would really prefer a courier option like Fed-Ex or DHL. They have to be small to post, right? Surely that is not that expensive?
I don't feel comfortable with my jacket going in the postal service.