Shipping and postage on Magic cards in Norway

Postage is the line item people forget when comparing card prices, and the one that most often decides what an order actually costs. On a 400 kr order, shipping is easily a quarter of the total — and if you order from several stores, you pay it several times.

Posten's letter rates

Norwegian card stores send singles as letters. The price depends on thickness, not weight (the 2 kg limit is never binding for cards):

The estimates assume a sleeved card is 0.4–0.5 mm, and that the envelope and protection eat 2–3 mm of the thickness allowance. The rates apply from 1 February 2026.

What the stores charge

Most stores have their own rate above Posten's bare letter price, because packing and any tracking come on top:

The rates were read from the stores' own pages and checkouts on 10 August 2026 (Arctic Loot on 21 October 2026). Tryllepapp's rate rises with weight and value up towards 190 kr for heavy orders. Final shipping is always shown in the store's own checkout.

The stores that ship from Sweden and Denmark were read on 11 October 2026. Their figure is the whole calculation for one card: the rate, Norwegian VAT on the postage and Posten's customs fee. Stores registered with VOEC charge Norwegian VAT at checkout, so no customs fee comes on delivery.

The calculation that actually decides

Suppose you need four cards, and each of them is 10 kr cheaper at a different store. Buy them where they are cheapest and you save 40 kr on the items while paying three extra lots of postage — around 150 kr more in total. The rule is therefore simple: gather the order, unless the difference on a single card is larger than a whole postage charge.

Free-shipping thresholds change the maths. If you are at 1,850 kr at Collectible, adding one more card to cross the threshold can beat spreading the order. The list search on Kortjakt works this out automatically: it distributes the whole list between the stores so that item total and postage come out lowest combined, taking both stock levels and free-shipping thresholds into account.

Cardmarket: one lot of postage per seller

On Cardmarket you buy from private individuals, and each seller ships separately. The marketplace's own tool helps you find sellers who cover as many of your cards as possible — use it, or postage will quickly eat the price advantage. Kortjakt treats each Cardmarket seller as its own shipment when the list search calculates the total.

Sellers do not set the postage themselves: Cardmarket calculates it from country, weight and dimensions and adds a packaging fee. This is what the rates within Norway look like right now:

That last row is the one that catches most people out: above 25 € in item value — around 264 kr — Cardmarket requires tracking, and postage of ~32 kr becomes ~89 kr. One expensive card from an extra seller therefore costs far more than a small letter.

The rates are Cardmarket's own, fetched 2026-11-15, converted at the day's rate. Tracking is not only a matter of order value: Cardmarket also requires it of sellers with too many shipments that never arrived — above 2% of their sales. Kortjakt reads those figures from the seller profile for the sellers a split ends up using, so a seller who must ship tracked gets parcel postage in the calculation from the first card. Cardmarket also requires tracking above 10 € from a new seller, which we count as one with fewer than 25 sales. Cardmarket may also require tracking for reasons it does not publish, so when the difference is small the list search prefers sellers with a longer sales history and shows what the shipment may cost if it must be tracked. Final shipping is shown in Cardmarket's own checkout.