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Shipping to Canada
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lugnet.market.shipping
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Sat, 6 Mar 1999 02:25:58 GMT
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Ok, I'm not sure if this is a rant, or a peeve, or a legitimate gripe. ;-)
Of the last 5 packages I've received from the US, all of them were stopped at
customs, one of them was opened, and I was charged a handling fee, and GST on
all of them, and the whole process made each of them take (avg) 2 weeks
(between 9 and 13 business days) from post date until I can pick them up (after
noon the day after I receive notice of a package waiting)
On the green customs tag, 1 was marked 'merchandise' 3 were left blank, and 1
was marked 'gift', but all five were stopped at the border. One of them was
insured, the others were not. Oddly, the one that was insured is also the only
one that was opened.
Is there anyway that I can get around the customs-imposed delay and addition
fees? An extra week of delivery time and $7-$10 bucks every package starts to
grate after a while.
Have other Canadians run into this? Is customs trying to crack some kind of
toy/drug smuggling ring? Or do I just have bad karma?
James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Shipping to Canada
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| Being from Canada, I can say that I have a hard time selling Lego to people in the US. My first sale, a Lego Mindstorms RIS went across the boarder (during Christmas). I put 'gift' on the pkg and it was insured. The person receiving the package did (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
| | | Re: Shipping to Canada
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| (...) [snip] I have sent a dozen or more parcels of LEGO and games to Canada with no nasty Customs stories that I know of. Sounds like you have a legitimate gripe, 'though much good that does you when dealing with the gummint. I have sent to (...) (26 years ago, 6-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
| | | Re: Shipping to Canada
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| James Brown wrote in message ... (...) at (...) on (...) (after (...) 1 (...) was (...) only (...) I'm just guessing, but I think that once they opened the first one and they hit paydirt, your name and address was put on their shit list and you're (...) (26 years ago, 8-Mar-99, to lugnet.market.shipping)
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