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.
g026r wrote:All that said, having attempted to navigate their site to find out what exactly I need to send to challenge the fees, I now have a bit of sympathy for my Paranoia players. Christ, bureaucracy is frustrating.
Mars wrote:You should just have to fill in the back of the customs form they slapped on your package and send it back in.My strangest miscategorized package was software from a company called Software Support. It was categorized by customs as "women's undergarments". It was shipped to my friends house since we did a bulk order. Needless to say that his Mom was a bit curious what us teenage boys were ordering.