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(...) <snip> (...) <snip> (...) OK, I did some calling around. I can get 4x6x2 corrugated cardboard mailers for about 40-cents each (100 qty). Do these sound sufficient ? Is that size too small for typical parts sales ? Ray Sanders #124 (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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[this probably should be in .market.buy-sell-trade, but since the charter for .market.shipping mentions scales... ] About two months ago I won an auction at a USPS surplus depot for a 'lot' of scales. These are the *big* postal scales that vary in (...) (24 years ago, 14-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Good pointer Frank, but you forgot to add the important point that if you go there and look at the tariff schedule, Steve, you will find that there is indeed no duty. It so happened that I went through US customs with a Dell server box full of (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Check out: (URL) keeps popping up every once in a while. Todd - could you transfer that info to something on the news.lugnet.com/market/shipping page (or is news.lugnet.com/market/theory better?)? (I guess I could FTX it and then you could add (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Most of the packages I receive are person-to-person and in the $20-$40 range. When I talked to my mailman last week, he agreed with me that there seemed to be a much larger group of packages getting tagged by Customs recently. <shrug> Maybe (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Maybe it's just us Albertans - the feds don't like that we don't have a provincial sales tax. :-) Seriously, I suspect it's because Kevin's stuff is below Cdn$50 in value and is coming from a private individual who is correctly taking the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Hasn't happened to me recently... it's definitely you they are after, James :-) Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Park: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) I've noticed lately (last 2-3 months?) that everything coming from the US has been tagged for GST. Have any other Canucks noticed this, or it is "pick on James" month at Canada Customs? James (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping, lugnet.loc.ca)
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(...) Lego coming into Canada is duty-free too, but strictly you get charged GST on it. Whether Canada Post bothers to collect that sometimes depends on the size of the shipment and other times seems to be quite random. Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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(...) Padded envelopes can work if an extra layer of bubble wrap is put around the bag of parts. An interesting twist which seems to work fairly well. I have now received several packages from overseas where an unopened set has been wrapped in (...) (24 years ago, 11-Oct-00, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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