People complain an awful lot about international shipping.
I have shipped several hundred items (the majority were LPs, along with several dozen other objects including at least a dozen keyboards) via US Post Office and 98% were delivered intact in a reasonable time frame. I had a few problems in various parts of the former Soviet Union, a couple in Japan, one in Ireland, one in Greece, that's really about all I can think of, over 8 years.
A flat rate game board box is $58 to anywhere, if it is small and will go in a flat rate envelope it is $12.
True, registration is expensive and useless, as is insurance, and tracking is impossible, but I have really been pretty pleased overall. Maybe I have been lucky, and I have been very angry when something went wrong, but you just have to accept that the world is not perfect.