Max Shipping Weights?

[tyler@ebay]

Howdy everyone - 

Sorry to impose on you this afternoon, but I'm having a devil of a time looking into a shipping calculator issue to get addressed and need your help!

I have been digging into Canada Post's website and cannot find min/max weights for various services. Does such a thing exist, or is it all just the 30kg max limit for domestic?

Much thanks to @lotzofuniquegoodies for helping me thus far!

[ricarmic]

I'm just heading to the PO to drop off packages so I don't have time to look specifically but it will likely be in this manual:

https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/prices/default-e.asp?ecid=murl07001139

[ricarmic]

I think i found it on page 7

Any dimension = 2 m, Length + Girth = 3 m

[pjcdn2005 · Accepted solution]

Section 3.1 and 3.2 of the following link give you the weight and dimension maximums for USA and international parcels.  

https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGpsus_int-e.asp#1395540

For domestic - section 3

https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/manual/PGpscanada-e.asp

Just a reminder that min.  dimensions for USA expedited and Domestic expedited are different. 🙂

[tyler@ebay]

Thanks so much both @ricarmic and @pjcdn2005! It appears that 30kg is the domestic max, and I am bookmarking these pages!

Onto more troubleshooting!

[ichopshop]

I keep this by my desk.  Just about everything you need to know for domestic shipping.

[tyler@ebay]

That's a brilliant handout @ichopshop - printing it out now. Thanks for sharing!

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

Here are few additional ones I use on a regular basis

https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/apps/wtz/business/findHsCode?execution=e2s1  Custom codes

https://www.canadapost.ca/business/tools/ds/default.aspx?LOCALE=en&ecid=murl08002548       International Guide

https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/1_Service_Overview/SOparcels_canada-e.pdf      Shipping within Canada

https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/personal/sending/parcels/compare-services-canada.page   Compare Shipping Services Canada

-CM

[retroman_studios]

Just in case you need it, 65LBS is the max for USA. Sent a package there a bit ago and was just under the wire.

[momcqueen]

Oh, and the problem with Tracked Packet (both USA and International) is that there’s a volumetric limit to it as well as a weight limit. I, however, can’t recall the limit. Only that it but me once in the butt really hard a few years ago when Calculated Shipping accidentally and erroneously allowed a buyer in France to buy Tracked Packet Service for a parcel only shippable via Xpresspost International due to exceeding that volumetric limit. It cost $100+ more in postage to ship it as a result and eBay did (eventually) compensate me for that because I kicked up a big stink. (Big surprise, me making a stink, I know.)

[cumos55]

Now we know the maximum weight allowed  for many of Canada Post's options for parcels.

Then we should ask....

How many parcels does each of us ship that weigh.... 5 ... 10 ... 20 ... and finally 30 kg?

We deliver it to a local postal outlet  and say good-bye....

How does the postal system deal with each weight of parcel?

How does it get delivered?    Community mailboxes....  Door-to-door delivery....  or is it available for a pickup at a local postal outlet..

How do the people that work for Canada Post deal with the mail?... with each weight of parcel?

and then... comes ....  The .... Ouch!

[femmefan1946]

When DH has been bidding in auctions we normally get four to ten banker's boxes delivered by mail.

And of course covered in postage stamps.

Have you ever seen @ricarmic 's pictures of his inventory?

It seems to confuse a lot of people, but stamp dealers are among those shipping large heavy lots regularly.

[momcqueen]

The heaviest thing I ever shipped was a small child’s (age 5) bicycle. It didn’t even come close to being heavy, or I would not have been able to transport it. The other 99.9 percent of everything over the past six years is an average of 275 g. No one is breaking their backs carrying my parcels to the mailbox.

[femmefan1946]

For a moment there I thought you said you had mailed a small child.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-children-sent-through-mail-180959372/

Snopes, as is its wont, disabused me.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/surface-male/

[momcqueen]

Ahahahaha, I certainly have enough of those to spare.

[travis7s]

I have shipped up to 29kg I believe, and I routinely receive shipments of 20+kg at the post office. The workers there can't lift them so they usually ask me to grab them off the shelf for them or use their handtruck.