Stupid USPS.

I'm trying to get an accurate shipping quote to send Noodge in her box to Australia, and USPS will not give me the exact type of shipping I want. What I want is something relatively inexpensive with insurance.

Let's say it's a 2.5 pound package [probably overkill, but let's just be safe]. Where insurance is noted, it's for $195.00.

I could do express mail in a flat rate box with insurance for $75.80, HAH HAH HAH.

I could do international priority in a medium flat rate box with insurance for $52.70, HAH HAH HAH.

I could do international priority in my own packaging with insurance for $47.00, HAH HAH HAH.

And that is the cheapest that USPS goes for insured shipping.

I could do a first class international parcel in my own packaging with registered mail for $32.77, but there's no insurance. Apparently you can't put insurance on first class international parcels. WHY NOT?

Poser 8 is so racist [and misogynist and anti-androgyny and anti-trans, not to mention ableist]...

The default shading colors for its 3-D digital human models make the people look Caucasian. Like this:

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Shipping dolls

8 x 8 x 8 box is $1.74 at UPS Store.

Dorothy in box weighs 12.4 oz.

Noodge in box weighs 11.4 oz.

Lola Paprika in box weighs 4 lbs, 11.1 oz.

Eyeballs

If this is going to be the Best Jareth Doll Ever [TM], I should invest in accurate eyes: 14mm low-dome blue/grey eyes with medium-sized pupils and darker rings at edges of irises in glass, urethane or silicone. In other words, artistic representations of my own eyeballs. o_o

Eyeco's Ultra series might work.