Mailing Costs for shipment of Graduation Documents

PLEASE note that the costs posted on this page may not reflect up-to-date costs, because the United States Postal Service is increasing the costs regularly, at least one time each year.

Instead of charging actual mailing costs and cost of labor involved in preparation of the package, we are charging a flat fee for the handling, packaging and shipping of documents by using "First Class Package Mail" (offered by the United States Postal Service).

International mailing costs

International packages (our U.S. flat rates are representing approximate Postal Service official costs) for International Mail. Costs are based on 1 pound (453 grams) package. Costs are subject to change based on USPS costs increases.

Flat fee for international package mailing: $27 USD

Fee covers preparation of package, packaging and "shipping" (mailing) of educational documents to the international destination by using "USPS First-Class Package International Service".

Average cost (charged by the U.S. Postal Service) to send documents outside of the United States by the First Class International Package Mail is $26.50 (less than 2 pounds) or $43.10 (above 2 pounds), charged by the U.S. Postal Service and based on the number of documents inside the package. In addition to that, there are the costs of materials and it also takes on overage about 2 hours to prepare each package for international destinations, including preparation of shipping labels and shipping payment processing.

Registered Mail service: $17.15 USD

Registered Mail service is the service that provides tracking of the package and gives additional assurance that the package will be delivered (in some countries packages are stolen, misplaced or lost).

Graduates can reject "Registered Mail" service and can pay only $27 for the final destination mailing. However, if a package is not delivered, graduates will be responsible for the costs of obtaining new governmental certificates and for additional mailing costs.  

If package is lost during the shipping process, the following will apply:

1.  We will reprint documents at no costs (free),

2.  Graduate will pay for the costs of any new governmental certificates (mailing and governmental charges), as provided on the page http://holyuniversity.org/documents-recognitions.htm

3.  Graduate will pay for the final destination mailing costs (to mail documents to the Country of the final destination). 

United States (domestic) mailing costs

The costs of domestic packages are representing the approximate costs of the U.S. Postal Service, including the costs of packaging materials; mailed by Regular First Class Mail or Priority Mail (at our discretion). Costs are based on 1 pound (453 grams) package. Any package over 1 pound has higher costs. Costs are subject to change based on costs increases.

U.S. flat rate for all U.S. States can be located on the USPS website https://postcalc.usps.com/

Fee covers preparation of package, packaging and "shipping" (mailing) of educational documents by "USPS Priority Mail" (mailing of documents in the United States).

At our discretion, for shipping to the continental parts of the United States, we may use USPS "First Class Domestic Package Mail" or USPS "Priority Mail" service, applying the same flat fee as listed above (U.S. shipping). 

Graduates also may select any additional optional services (for the actual additional costs paid by the graduating student), such as “Registered Mail”, “Express Mail”, “Priority Mail”, or any other add-on shipping services. Higher class mailing options and mail services offered by private shipping companies are not covered by our flat fees.