Shipping to Canada - Cheapest Option

[JatoTheRipper]

I have a guy interested in buying one my Rock Rey, but he is in Saskatchewan in Canada. What is the cheapest method to ship an RC from the US to Canada? Thank you.

[QuesoDelDiablo]

USPS/Can Post has always been the best for me.

Or if you want use a courier, probably DHL; not FedEx.

[2mtech]

Canada Post was the cheapest I could find last time I shipped up there. Took forever and customs actually opened the package, but it got there unscathed.

At least they didn't find all the Peruvian marching powder stashed inside the spare tire lol.

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by QuesoDelDiablo

USPS/Can Post has always been the best for me.

Or if you want use a courier, probably DHL; not FedEx.

I'm finding the same about USPS so far.

Originally Posted by 2mtech

Canada Post was the cheapest I could find last time I shipped up there. Took forever and customs actually opened the package, but it got there unscathed.

At least they didn't find all the Peruvian marching powder stashed inside the spare tire lol.

How did you ship via the Canada Post? When I go to their site to get a rate it doesn't allow me to select shipping FROM the US.

https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/a...execution=e3s1

[Tossedman]

You'd need to ship via USPS and Canada Post will deliver it once it clears customs here.

[MasteroFlego]

Originally Posted by Tossedman

You'd need to ship via USPS and Canada Post will deliver it once it clears customs here.

Am Canadian, can confirm that anything shipped by USPS into Canada will be completed by Canada post.

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk

[jcanuck]

I live in Canada and bought and sold rc stuff and always used Canada post/USPS.

[smog]

Yep, USPS has been my go to from US as well

[JatoTheRipper]

Thank you, all. I'll leave this thread up for the next person trying to ship to Canada. Unfortunately, the dick that claimed to have serious interest in my Rock Rey pulled the "I got laid off card" when I gave him a shipping price quote.

[2mtech]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Thank you, all. I'll leave this thread up for the next person trying to ship to Canada. Unfortunately, the dick that claimed to have serious interest in my Rock Rey pulled the "I got laid off card" when I gave him a shipping price quote.

Must've been a helluva shipping cost if it got him laid off! Were you sending a 1:1 Rock Rey??

Seriously, people...once you say "I WILL BUY IT", consider that a contract in this community.

[smog]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

Thank you, all. I'll leave this thread up for the next person trying to ship to Canada. Unfortunately, the dick that claimed to have serious interest in my Rock Rey pulled the "I got laid off card" when I gave him a shipping price quote.

I know that shipping can be a deal killer for a lot of orders from the US I might otherwise make. The shipping is always cheap until you hit the Canadian border. Our shipping costs are substantially higher up here. That and if the product is valued over $100 you can be sure you will get hit with taxes and possibly even duty/brokerage fees on arrival. When you consider all of this in combination with the weak CDN dollar I am not surprised to hear someone may have gotten cold feet. before the Covid-thing, I would have my purchases shipped to North Dakota and go pick them up myself on daytrips/weekends to the US. Ordering from the US only made sense if I was going down anyway. I have learned that it is common to have free or nearly free shipping on orders shipped within the US. You guys are pretty fortunate to have such a thing.

Anyway, sorry to hear the sale fell through Jato. I am sure someone will scoop it up, that RR is sweet the way you set it up.

[JatoTheRipper]

Originally Posted by 2mtech

Must've been a helluva shipping cost if it got him laid off! Were you sending a 1:1 Rock Rey??

Seriously, people...once you say "I WILL BUY IT", consider that a contract in this community.

I agree. He owes me at least a finger.

Originally Posted by smog

I know that shipping can be a deal killer for a lot of orders from the US I might otherwise make. The shipping is always cheap until you hit the Canadian border. Our shipping costs are substantially higher up here. That and if the product is valued over $100 you can be sure you will get hit with taxes and possibly even duty/brokerage fees on arrival. When you consider all of this in combination with the weak CDN dollar I am not surprised to hear someone may have gotten cold feet. before the Covid-thing, I would have my purchases shipped to North Dakota and go pick them up myself on daytrips/weekends to the US. Ordering from the US only made sense if I was going down anyway. I have learned that it is common to have free or nearly free shipping on orders shipped within the US. You guys are pretty fortunate to have such a thing.

Anyway, sorry to hear the sale fell through Jato. I am sure someone will scoop it up, that RR is sweet the way you set it up.

I told him I'd work with him on shipping. Didn't even discuss a price. He just said he got laid off.

I didn't realize fees were due from the buyer on expensive shipments though! Thanks for that info.

[smog]

Originally Posted by JatoTheRipper

I agree. He owes me at least a finger.




I told him I'd work with him on shipping. Didn't even discuss a price. He just said he got laid off.

I didn't realize fees were due from the buyer on expensive shipments though! Thanks for that info.

It is lame when people back out on deals.

We get killed on the costs of some day to day things up here. Shipping is one example, the cost of cell phones and plans is another that comes to mind.

[QuesoDelDiablo]

Originally Posted by smog

We get killed on the costs of some day to day things up here. Shipping is one example, the cost of cell phones and plans is another that comes to mind.

But it's all offset by our healthcare costs...

Someone had to say it..

[smog]

Originally Posted by QuesoDelDiablo

But it's all offset by our healthcare costs...

Someone had to say it..

Yeah, having to pay out of pocket for health care makes free shipping seem pretty trivial. Oh well, at least you guys get to bring hand guns to Starbucks...

[nightcrawler48]

I think I might have posted this up before. I was shipping some stuff to a friend of mine in North Carolina from Washington state. Don't know if they still do it but USPS had a "If it fits, it ships" shipping box and you didn't have to pay for the box until you actually took it in to the post office to ship it. The box size I needed was $8.95 shipped. I filled it, took it to the post office, and paid my $8.95. When they weighed it, I was told if I hadn't used the USPS "If it fits, it ships" box it would have cost me $44.00. Now that's what I call "We want your business" service.

Same thing in Canada would probably have been double to ship from British Columbia to say Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. If its a small heavy box, it costs big time and if its a large light box, same thing. Canada Post seems to get you coming and going. Needless to say, I rarely ship anything in Canada. I did hear Canada Post is doing a rip-roaring business right now. Seems like the only way to get some things right now.

[GA Dawg]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler48

I think I might have posted this up before. I was shipping some stuff to a friend of mine in North Carolina from Washington state. Don't know if they still do it but USPS had a "If it fits, it ships" shipping box and you didn't have to pay for the box until you actually took it in to the post office to ship it. The box size I needed was $8.95 shipped. I filled it, took it to the post office, and paid my $8.95. When they weighed it, I was told if I hadn't used the USPS "If it fits, it ships" box it would have cost me $44.00. Now that's what I call "We want your business" service.

I bought an old Wilton vise off of eBay years back and it arrived in one of those boxes.

[whitrzac]

I shipped 50lbs of lead in a flat rate box a couple months ago... $14 to go across the country.

[2mtech]

Yeah, it's all about the size of the package now.