Just got the word from my local postie, although as we know there are likely many variations of this across the various post offices, and I may have misunderstood.
So here are two things, as I understand them, that will be different for me.
Remember I am a guy who uses stamps and the non-Canadian destination carbon forms today for Expediteds, Expresspost etc.
The $2 fee isn't for filling in the HS code, it is for typing in the stuff that we used to write on the carbon forms. If we show up at the PO with our trusty carbon form filled out the PO employee has to manually type all the stuff in off the form (including the HS code too) like the name, address, customs information etc . If I go to the CP customs site and fill out the online version of the old carbon form, I can print a page that also has one of those fancy black and white spotted boxes (scan codes) my kids phones read and the PO employee just scans that box to load the info which saves me the $2.
Something new is that for the countries requiring this we also have to include the phone number now. I had noticed that if one looks at the eBay order details page the phone number was on there now, not sure how long that was in place but I'm assuming it was done to support this new requirement too.
I believe the only countries we have to do this for to start are USA, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Hungary, Portugal, but I may not have heard them all or there could be more....
It will be interesting to see what happens......
