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... On .ca also why can we have economy international mail as one of our options on .ca. I am not sending it Canada post but economy international which takes longer. I use that on .com but it is not available on .ca.
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It's a dropdown choice when you have Flat rate shipping selected. It is a generic choice not associated with any shipping service.
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wrote:
... On .ca also why can we have economy international mail as one of our options on .ca. I am not sending it Canada post but economy international which takes longer. I use that on .com but it is not available on .ca.
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It's a dropdown choice when you have Flat rate shipping selected. It is a generic choice not associated with any shipping service.
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That is great. I asked for that a long time ago and I am happy to see that they have added it. Now would it be too confusing for buyers to have a choice of shipping methods, like this:
I use ChitChat for all my overseas (their cheap non-tracked version provided by DHL), it's only a couple of days at most slower than Canada Post and for some destinations it's faster.
I use "Standard International" as the shipping service....I have pretty much zero late shipment dings for International.
They fill up a skid of mail and when it is full send it.
Perhaps that because you are in BC, here in Toronto the overseas packages I drop off at ChitChat generally get to Frankfurt Germany within 48 hours and then on to the destination country within 24 hours. Still subject to the same customs delays just like anything sent via Canada Post. Most destinations see delivery in about 10 days except for the usual suspects. (South America etc.)
I've been using DHL Global Mail since 2009, initially direct and for the last few years through ChitChat, in that time I've had two packages go missing, that would be out of 2 or 3 thousand which is the same as my historical rate over the past 30+ years I've done International mailorder.
Given the very low rates you can pad the shipping easily with a handling charge that will more than cover the occasional loss, I've made thousands in my "self-insurance" fund.
DHL Global Mail is dropped shipped to the local postal service in the destination country for final delivery, there are never any charges for customs clearance beyond what would normally be charged when shipping via Canada Post. Basically packages are accumulated in Canada, shipped to Frankfurt Germany and then added to the standard outgoing International mail from Deutche Post (part of the DHL Group), processed and delivered by the local postal service.
DHL Express is a courier service and shipments through that service can be subject to brokerage fees just like UPS or FedEx.
Two completely different services.
I've used DHL Global Mail (via Germany), BPost (via Belgium), NordPost (via Norway) and Royal Mail (via the UK).
wrote:Hi does all DHL mail go through Germany then on to Australia?
Yes it all goes on the daily Lufthansa flight from Toronto to Frankfurt. That is for packages originating in the Toronto area. DHL may also fly direct from Montreal and Vancouver as well but I'm not 100% sure. In any event everything does at some point go through Frankfurt (perhaps the largest transfer point in Europe for air cargo.
If I drop a package off at ChitChat in Toronto on a Monday afternoon ir will likely be flying to Frankfurt on the Tuesday flight (maybe Wednesday with ChitChat in the middle). It would be on the ground for about 24-36 hours in Frankfurt before heading off to the destination country.
Almost all air cargo operates on a hub & spoke system, just like FedEx where almost everything travels through Atlanta or UPS through Nashville all DHL Global Mail travels through Frankfurt.
In my early days with DHL I used them for US bound shipments, even a shipment going to the US northeast from Toronto would go to Frankfurt and then to Boston.
wrote:So am I right to say that all mail going to Australia via CCE from Vancouver goes to Germany first?
Most likely they do, but the "stamps" (actually a postage paid by permit indicia) would be applied by a bunch of nice south Asian ladies in the back of a dark and dusty industrial unit in Mississauga (or maybe the Vancouver equivalent).
@snoopwizwrote:The few times the subject has come up with my European buyers, they have all told me the "Post Mark" showed Belgium. This was as recent as last week.
Yeah I've had the same reports although as recently as yesterday the people at the downtown office told me it's now all via DHL these days. It's possible they don't actually know and think the Tracked and Untracked services are handled the same.
In any event, Belgium through BPost or Germany via DHL it all works exactly the same, drop at Chit Chat, next day flight to Europe, the day after that sent on the way to the destination country.
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