European Post Offices

[clif]

Does anyone buy from European Post offices? Will they ship to the US? I would like to occasionally buy new issues and would rather not pay the (IMO ridiculous) markups offered on ebay and through new issue vendors.

For example I would like to purchase this very recently released mini-sheet from Germany ... face value 1.55 euros = $1.73 US. eBay has them for $13 free ship; BombayPhilatelic has them for $4.43 plus ship 

I guess the markup is only ridiculous if you can't get the product through any other means.

Failing direct order, do we have any members living in Germany who would be willing to swap like for like? 

[Philatarium]

About 15 years ago, I was collecting Millennium issues, and I remember ordering directly online from the German post office way back then.  It's probably even easier now. 

Just digging around:  

Here's their main page (in English!):
www.deutschepost.de/en/home.html

And here's what happens when you click on the "Shop" link up at the top of that first page:
www.efiliale.de/


Unfortunately, it's in German, but, especially if you use Chrome, you can use Google Translate to translate the whole page for you.