You don't need a license but you do need to go through the commercial, often called truck, lanes and do the proper paperwork. Only Lewiston & Fort Erie have the commercial lanes. You can't cross at Rainbow with commercial goods.
It's pretty easy but depends on the dollar value of the shipment you're bringing over. If the total is under $2000 it's pretty simple. If it's over $2000 you do need to have a broker & becomes a bit more complicated.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
It's pretty easy but depends on the dollar value of the shipment you're bringing over. If the total is under $2000 it's pretty simple. If it's over $2000 you do need to have a broker & becomes a bit more complicated.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
wow... is it really worth to send your packages by some shipping company to USPS outlet? I never thought about it... I'm in Ottawa- 2 hours to the border...
For me shipping within Canada is more expensive than to Japan and sometimes it takes 3 weeks from Ottawa to Toronto 😞 is it cheaper to send parcel from US to Canada? But since 90% of my customers are from the States this would work for me... how you do with the return address?
If you find the solution... could you please share??? :-x
For me shipping within Canada is more expensive than to Japan and sometimes it takes 3 weeks from Ottawa to Toronto 😞 is it cheaper to send parcel from US to Canada? But since 90% of my customers are from the States this would work for me... how you do with the return address?
If you find the solution... could you please share??? :-x
That's why you have to go in the commercial lanes. You are running a business when you bring commercial/sold goods into the US. Businesses can't use the personal lanes when they're bringing over commercial goods. And as I already said, you have to have the proper paperwork and Tariff codes for what you are bringing over.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
To cross you need to fill out the 7523 with the proper tariff codes & country of origin & whatever else is on the form. Country of origin is where the item is manufactured not where you bought it. Some things also require extra documentation before being allowed entry. It depends on the item as to what else is needed or if it's allowed at all. Research before you go.
Some items just lend themselves to extra scrutiny or hassles from the border guard. Some on here have reported being hassled.
https://forms.customs.gov/customsrf/getformharness.asp?formName=cf-7523-form.xft
http://prototype.usitc.gov/tata/hts/bychapter/2005_supp.htm
http://www.usitc.gov/tata/
You also have to pay the commercial fee which I believe is $10 per trip or you get an annual sticker for $300. There was a time when they let us through without it but they told us if we go once a week we had to get the sticker, so we did.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
Some items just lend themselves to extra scrutiny or hassles from the border guard. Some on here have reported being hassled.
https://forms.customs.gov/customsrf/getformharness.asp?formName=cf-7523-form.xft
http://prototype.usitc.gov/tata/hts/bychapter/2005_supp.htm
http://www.usitc.gov/tata/
You also have to pay the commercial fee which I believe is $10 per trip or you get an annual sticker for $300. There was a time when they let us through without it but they told us if we go once a week we had to get the sticker, so we did.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
If the Canadian Dollar fell back to 62 cents (I don't feel it's too risky to say that we will never see that again) it would wipe out most of the advantage of using USPS especially for 2kg and under.
When our Dollar was at 90 cents there was still a few select weight points where Canada Post was slightly cheaper (a few cents) for International. At par even that is gone.
On a few higher weight items the price difference between USPS Priority and CP Expedited-USA is actually quite small. Not much help really considering the much longer delivery times.
Unless you are REALLY close to the border you do need a reasonable volume to make using USPS direct worthwhile especially if you drive over in a gas guzzler and place any sort of value on your time.
When our Dollar was at 90 cents there was still a few select weight points where Canada Post was slightly cheaper (a few cents) for International. At par even that is gone.
On a few higher weight items the price difference between USPS Priority and CP Expedited-USA is actually quite small. Not much help really considering the much longer delivery times.
Unless you are REALLY close to the border you do need a reasonable volume to make using USPS direct worthwhile especially if you drive over in a gas guzzler and place any sort of value on your time.
How did you ship the packages with USPS? Parcel post can take a couple months, same with Media Mail. Priority Mail is the 2 - 3 day delivery option. Did you get delivery confirmation? For me, that's part of the point in using USPS, to get delivery confirmation to qualify for PayPal protection and to avoid buyers saying they never got it when they in fact did.
I've never had a Priority Mail package take that long to arrive. Never! Not even going to the UK or Australia. I think the longest within the US was 5 days and that's because there was a holiday in there. Longer than that is because the buyer didn't go to their post office to pick it up.
I don't know but I think you've done something wrong. I've had the occasional First Class package take a couple of weeks to arrive but never Priority Mail and only one package got eaten by their machines & one went to the Twilight Zone. I've been going over for a few years now. Since the fall of 04 I think.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
I've never had a Priority Mail package take that long to arrive. Never! Not even going to the UK or Australia. I think the longest within the US was 5 days and that's because there was a holiday in there. Longer than that is because the buyer didn't go to their post office to pick it up.
I don't know but I think you've done something wrong. I've had the occasional First Class package take a couple of weeks to arrive but never Priority Mail and only one package got eaten by their machines & one went to the Twilight Zone. I've been going over for a few years now. Since the fall of 04 I think.
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
I was thinkin of take plastic sheets and setting them sail on lake ontario into the direction of where the buyer lives.
Thanks.
Sukh
(Dream About Comics)
Sukh
(Dream About Comics)
I asked what service you used as well but you didn't answer that.
Why wouldn't you have called to find out the hours of the location before going rather than wasting all that time?
If you called the USPS 800 number they could have told you the locations hours and if there was an afterhours location. That's how I found out about the one in Buffalo that was 24 hours.
Yep, to each their own.....but if you're going to make that effort, at least do it right. ;)
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
Why wouldn't you have called to find out the hours of the location before going rather than wasting all that time?
If you called the USPS 800 number they could have told you the locations hours and if there was an afterhours location. That's how I found out about the one in Buffalo that was 24 hours.
Yep, to each their own.....but if you're going to make that effort, at least do it right. ;)
When you find doing what's right hard to do - you've got a problem.
