Dave, you pay at the door if you're there or they leave you a card with the amount and you pick up the packet at the post office. The best way to have something sent from USA is definitely USPS as canadian customs charge (when they do) only $5 in brokerage fees. (UPS takes charge of the brokerage fees and it looks like they like it because it might get very expensive...)
A few years ago, 50% of the packets would be grabbed by customs, now about 20%, probably because mines now often come with a very low declared value. It looks like custom workers in Saskatchewan have less "traffic" than in Quebec, William. I understand that here they actually have only the manpower to check a fraction of the entering packets. In any circumstances, the lower the declared value, the lower the amount of taxes you pay when you pay some. Big businesses and some privates don't want to declare a lower value. Most do it though. As far as I'm concerned, insurance (and full declared value) is useless if you trust the seller ; I mean the packet will be sent and it won't be lost by USPS or canadian post. (I know it happened to this guy five years ago, and a cousin told me once...). You take this (very very small) chance or you pay more! If you loose something one day, you will probably have saved more over the years than this single loss. Cheers, Andre >How do they hit you up for this money.When the >package arives at the local post office do they call >up,have you pick it up and charge you then.?? > >Dave > >---- Begin Original Message ---- > >From: andre langevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:04:08 -0400 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Customs for Canucks > > >>I have about a 25% >>rate of stuff that gets mailed from the US getting hit by customs, >and >>this was one of them. Poop. >> >>frank > >High rate, maybe because you have you packets insured, then have the >real value written on the green tag. For items below 50$ I ask it >uninsured and suggest a low declared value AND for the description: >"USED camera" or "USED parts". > >But I've seen a 10$ packet hit by the customs (uncommon) and a few >$100 ones go go through it without being arrested and fined. > >Andre -- - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
