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Re: Shipping from Canada to US questions
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lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade
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Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:32:10 GMT
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Heather Patey wrote in message ...
> There is a catch, though... there is a minimum density factor applied to • large
> light packages. I haven't been able to figure exactly what the multiplier • is -
> I let the post office price these for me now - but I've found to my • detriment
> that unopened sets are light enough for this to apply, although pieces • should
> not, unless they're raised baseplates or domes or something like that. • It's
> the seller's responsibility to charge you appropriately for shipping, of
> course, but if the package is marked with more shipping than you'd think by
> looking at the website, that's why.
This minimum density factor only applies to parcels, not small packets,
luckily, but when they first started doing this last year I got bitten
several times when mailing sets or baseplates. To calculate the "minimum
density" weight you take the 3 dimensions of the package in cm, multiply
them all together, then divide by 6000, which gives you the weight in kg.
They calc the shipping rate from the higher of that weight or the actual
weight. I now cut down my boxes to the minimum size possible for the
contents, try and keep as many as possible down in the Small Packet regions
and pay a lot more attention to the weight/volume of larger packages before
I quote a shipping fee.
Kevin
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| [FUT lugnet.market.shipping] (...) Kevin, I got ripped on this one I think. I was told too that it didn't apply, but I have still had small packets get charged according to minimum density weight. I was cheesed because it bumped me into the next (...) (24 years ago, 9-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| (...) I haven't had any trouble with packages crossing the border either. Things do take a little longer from Newfoundland than they would from BC, I've found, even if heading to the east coast... go figure. Since you're both out west it shouldn't (...) (24 years ago, 8-Feb-01, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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