Thank you Olivia, I appreciate your time and effort, I know mine was a long post.
To clarify or summarize:
A UK seller can ship a $500 record album to me for about $35, including Insurance and Signature Confirmation via Registered Mail. He is 100% protected from a fraudulent "Item Not Received" claim, because a U.S. post man will not hand over the package without getting a Signature.
As a U.S. seller, I cannot send that same package to the UK for less than $100, using one of the big three (UPS, FedEx or DHL). Even if I send it Registered Mail Insured and pay for "Signature Confirmation", the USPS is only responsible for the package until it reaches the UK. At that point, it will show online that the package reached the UK, but the UK post man will NOT obtain a "Signature Confirmation" because it's not part of the UK's "internal procedures".
Knowing this, criminals around the world are buying expensive things on eBay from U.S. Sellers. This not only corrupts the Paypal system, but also eBay, because the second highest bidder never had a chance, when the criminal is able to bid whatever it takes to win — knowing he is going to get all of his money back when he files an "Item Not Received" claim. Because he knows the U.S. Seller CANNOT get Signature Confirmation, and he knows that Paypal with side with him (the criminal, in this case) every single time, if the Seller cannot provide an online-viewable "Signature Confirmation" to Paypal.
This means U.S. sellers are in an untenable position, exposed to 100% risk, and the only possible way (that I have found so far) to protect ourselves is to use a Delivery Service (UPS, FedEx or DHL) that is so expensive that we cannot possibly compete.
Would you pay $100+ to have a record album sent to you?
That's the problem. Nobody else will, either.
And the criminals know it, they know the U.S. seller is in a bind, and there's nothing we can do about it, and Paypal will back the Buyer up 100%.
