You can track the customs process, so you can find out when it leaves
Canadian Customs to be delivered. But since that's the biggest drag on the
delivery process, it is a useful tracking.
Johnie Stafford
McKinney, TX
jms@xxxxxxxxx
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Walters [mailto:mwalters@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, September 21, 2013 11:22 AM
> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
> Subject: Re: [OM] RANT: Shipping Rates
>
> Yes, packages arriving by courrier will almost always get a processing fee
(to
> clear customs) tacked on. With USPS, Canadians might get caught with
> GST/HST etc (depending on province). I've found that the regular USPS
> parcel mail almost always gets through with no sales taxes, even when the
> declared value is, say, $2-300. Using USPS priority service (forget the
proper
> name), Canadian customs will invariably add the sales taxes (unless the
value
> is very small).
>
> Although regular parcel mail from the USA can take 10 days or so, it may
be
> worthwhile just to save the tax. IIRC, there isn't tracking on regular
mail.
> Don't recollect whether one can insure packages either.
>
> Martin
>
> On 21/09/2013 11:08 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
> > Yes, UPS to and from Canada is the worst. They will routinely stop a
> > package at the border, add a $40 fee and then tack that onto my monthly
> > bill. Well, that is until I closed my account. Post Office adds no
> > fees either way but have found that high value packages may hit the
> > Canadian owner with VAT.
> >
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> >
> >
> > On 9/20/2013 11:35 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> >> On 9/20/13 21:22 : , Johnie Stafford wrote:
> >>> I was going to bring up Customs as well. When I shipped that camera
> >>> to Vick it spent something like 10 days in customs.
> >>>
> >>> BTW, a tip for anybody that doesn't know... If you go to the USPS
> >>> site and enter the Customs receipt ticket number into their tracking
> >>> thing it will show you just how much time it spent in Customs.
> >>>
> >> My experience shipping to Canada is to avoid UPS at all costs. The
> >> Postal service may be slow, but they will eventually deliver it. UPS
> >> will hold it at whatever distribution center they drop it at, and
> >> will not deliver until you drive there and pay whatever duty or taxes
> >> they think you owe. Doesn't matter if the distro center is 100 miles
> >> from your house. That happened twice to me on something I sold and
> >> shipped to Canada - last three times I used USPS and all went well.
> >>
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