You will never know until you try. I shipped successfully from USA for years. I live in Sarnia. Then all of a sudden everything changed, I had to get a transponder, had to go through the trucker's lane, fill out a manifest (very itemized), stand in line in a hallway with a sign saying "Do not lean against the wall", sometimes for hours. Dealing with the person at the counter was like playing ping pong. I was told to do it one way then told that was wrong and should do it another way and back to original way, back and forth. It made no difference it was never right and they would hold me up until after the post office closed. I appealed to a supervisor and had him set down rules how they wanted it done. Then they started demanding that I hire a broker and pulled my parcels apart. I printed out the law that said I did not require a broker, that I could clear my items through customs myself and took it with me. The next time my husband took items through, they slapped duty on the items. All in all, they were very rude to us and I think that the fact we had expensive items (lots of Swarovski crystal) created the hostility. The stress got to be so much that we decided never to ship from USA again and we have been shipping from Canada since.
There are still lots of Canadians shipping from there. Their items are not as expensive and they have no problems. As for us, I think it worked out for the best Yes, it costs us more to ship and often we don't have tracking on most of our items, but we can ship every day without stress. No more do we waste two or three afternoons a week to go to USA, no more endless paperwork, standing in line on the bridge to cross, and deal with rude people. All we lost is stress and we now support our own postal system and help keep Canadians in work.
