Buying & Selling Thru Ebay & Other Auctions/ebay, figuring out shipping

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I am an occasional seller on ebay and I sell only to the U.S. and charge a flat shipping amount to "keep the shipping simple."  I want to try selling internationally, but I don't know how to figure a shipping charge when I put the ad on ebay. For instance, if I sell a medium sized oil painting and I want it to be available
internationally, how would I go about it? Would I bring it fully packaged (w/o the addressee) to the post office and get it weighed for - where? if I don't know who has won the item yet? Please help me with this. Thanks!

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You can go to the post office site to calculate the postage. It has many countries and will tell you how much postage will be. Here is the link. http://ircalc.usps.gov/
You can then select your country you are shipping to and enter ounce and weight, so it will tell you how much shipping is, then you know how much it will cost you.  

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