Shipping To Canada

[Evildave]

I learned a fun detail from my friend the other day.
Apparently, when you have anything shipped to canada, the very best way to ship there is ... USPS ground.
The reason for this being :brokerage.

When anything goes thru the frontier, the packages sit in a warehouse until they are claimed by an organisation on the other side of the frontier. When you ship thru UPS, they charge you 40$ brokerage fees. With USPS ground, it's 5$.


I've also learned, from the USPS website that you can ship a regular letter/big envelope to canada for 1.44, as long as the thing does not weight over 3.5 ounces.

Depending on what's the parcel and whatnot, you may also be charged taxes.

Any other canadians have shipping tales to share?

[chinamon]

when shipping to canada, it is canada post that charges the brokerage fee... not USPS.

also, the $5 brokerage fee is only charged if customs decides to charge you any duties. if they release the parcel without duties then the recipient does not get charged a brokerage fee.