To the US, shipping has been cheap. Last set of parts I ordered was $1.87 for 8 MAX7219s, resistors, and I think aset of one other small thing.
Time before that I bought a bunch of bulky electromechanical parts - pots, knobs, switches, whole mess of SMD stuff. Biggish padded envelope, $8 something for shipping. Stuff has been arriving from a Colorado address and Thailand, must be some kind of distributor deal set up?