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Shipping costs... is it really this much?
 

What is the best/cheapest way to ship items in canada?

I sold a t-shirt recently and it was $16 for standard shipping with canada post (sent in envelope) and a couple of small books was $26 with ups (packaging- envelope), is this the norm or am I missing something? seems ridiculous... I have only been shipping within Canada

Re: Shipping costs... is it really this much?
 

Not much you can do - try looking into Canadian courier services other than Canada Post.

Or try getting a commercial account with FedEx, UPS or so going

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i use ups and they charge $16 next day delivery in the city itself .for us shipping a 4 pound book costs 19-22 dollars for most us cities with 4 day ups shipping
but for shipping from canada to us ,chitchatexpress is better from what ive heard.

the ups service i use,the store pays for the box they dont charge me extra regardless of the size of the box they use
search ups or courier service on kijiji and youll get a lot of ads for such stores that offer shipping through multiple services such as ups,dhl,purolator

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If you live near the border, you could use service to get it over border and drop it into USPS system. I myself live in Vancouver and able to do so. I have found few companies that are able to drop for every 100lbs of any type of packages for only $37.99. And I send 1000s of packages per month, so it works wonders for me. I however have to file declaration each time though but it takes only few minutes.


P.S. Canada Post has been super bad lately; they lose about 10% of items I send or deliver them super delayed (2-4 weeks within Canada)

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Canada Post is not known for quality vs. cost but ....sadly...up here we are quite limited in our options

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send it by oversize lettermail. just fold it in a way that it doesn't exceed the maximum allowed length/width/thickness. say the shirt weighs 7ounce/200grams , you have to put 2.95$ worth of CA stamps on it, afterwards just drop it off in any mailbox. if your sending to usa, send it via light packet usa( can't exceed 0.8in thickness either )

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you must have really bad luck. sold about 500 items since nov 2014 only 1 package was lost. what option are you sending it by to have it take 2-4 weeks? not even basic lettermail takes that long

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Basic letter mail 0.85, 1.80, 3.10. I have sent about 3000-4000 last year and it was a bit better but since this year out of 500, at least 30 were lost. I switched to USPS to ship to Canada while also being in Canada but you get the tracking and price is not so different :noidea:

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yeah i wish we had service like chitchatexpress here in montreal, small items is fine with canada post with lettermail, but once you need to send a parcel the prices become out of hand, especially when sending to far west. Had to send an item by expedited parcel because it was to thick for lettermail.. $14 for 0.2 kg item.. it's a joke

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I am pretty sure those exist as I myself found 3 companies in Vancouver, 1 of them was just a regular woman who has been doing it for 20 years or more.

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Nothing against buyers in general but sometimes, it's not even YOUR fault the packages are lost....there are buyers that couldn't provide their correct address if their lives depended on it.