I have a little story of my own that might persuade you to change your mind about the price for airfare mail. My folks sent me a Christmas package from Canada in late October to meet the post office's deadline for their guarantee to have it delivered to me by Christmas day. I didn't end up getting it until mid-March. It had been in China for a long time before that, but I was not notified of it until March. The only thing that raised a flag with them was that they only keep unclaimed packages for a certain amount of time before they will return it to the sender, so their computer notified them that my package had only three days left before it would be shipped out. My friends have sent me several packages by airmail, and the latest they have arrived is 10 days later, and they were either hand delivered, or attempts were made by the post office to contact me by phone. The Chinese postal system leaves much to be desired with incoming packages.