Badmike wrote:I'll be waiting in Texas for the Mounties to ride up.....they better be packing, cause I'll be. Nuff said.Mike B.
g026r wrote:Now to see if I can wrangle any money back from Canada Customs, as they assessed a bunch of books as "Computer Software".
Xaxaxe wrote:I love Canada. It gave us hockey.
killjoy32 wrote:nuff said? you cant even fend off a giant shrew heheAl
FormCritic wrote:Aside from the word "bacon," the two words that Americans most often read after the word "Canadian" are "blended whiskey."Perhaps that was part of the problem at Customs?
Mars wrote:Hey Deimos, You must have been over the 500g mark (1.1 pounds). If the envelope isn't too think you can send it either by Light Packet, or oversized Letter post for $6.20. If its a bit thicker then it has to go Small Packet $8.20 air or $6.90 surface. It sounds to me though that you were over the 500g and move up into the 500g - 1 kg category. If your package is close to the 500g, just buy the postage online (or through paypal) and put the weight as 500g - they have a certain amount of tolerance on the actual weight.For a module within Canada, I can send it by oversized Lettermail with cardboard for $2.55 (upto 500g, 1.1 pounds).PS - my mountie suit is currently at the drycleaner.
Mars wrote:Ya, and we want that cup back too!
deimos3428 wrote:Was it Canada Customs? Sometimes they like to charge citizens for the privilege of rifling through their stuff, but it's semi-random as they don't have the manpower to check each and every package.The fee is a base $5, and a percentage of the item's declared worth on top. Plus there'll be GST. This happens most often when the seller lists the items as "Games" instead of "Used Books", but it can pop up anytime they're bored, really. You can ask the seller to mark it as a "Gift", but you're playing with mail fraud there, technically.
jasonw1239 wrote:Who knows..sometime in the next century or so maybe even Toronto can win another Stanley cup.
Not improvstone wrote:Was it Canada Customs? Sometimes they like to charge citizens for the privilege of rifling through their stuff, but it's semi-random as they don't have the manpower to check each and every package.The fee is a base $5, and a percentage of the item's declared worth on top. Plus there'll be GST. This happens most often when the seller lists the items as "Games" instead of "Used Books", but it can pop up anytime they're bored, really. You can ask the seller to mark it as a "Gift", but you're playing with mail fraud there, technically.
g026r wrote:Yeah, that was deimos. Oops.