Canada Post to US shippers - please post here with your experiences post May 2nd

[cottagewoman]

Would sincerely appreciate any feedback from sellers using Canada Post to ship to US customers given the changes that have recently occured for de minimis post May 2nd - good or bad. Would like to avoid any posts for cross border shippers using ChitChats, Stallion, DYK, etc - this is being discussed on other threads. Thanks - will be sending my 1st out today via CP.

[ricarmic]

Buyer received the tracked packet in their mailbox this afternoon. (China stamps shipped may 2nd, old fashioned way, stamps on parcel and manual COO and HS code).

Will see if I hear anything from the customer. (I'm assuming if they owed a tariff the post office wouldn't have dropped it in their mailbox but time will tell).

[cottagewoman]

1st item sent - vintage cast Iron metal trivet with non CN CoO marks - cleared customs in less than 24 hours through ISC New York. On it's way to buyer via USPS.

[sapphyres-designer-jewellery]

I have an update on a Canada Post letter!

So I sold some Australian stamps on May 6, I would have likely dropped them in the mail May 7 (but I've been off work this week so I'm not sure if I made it to the post office on May 6 before mail pick up...)

In any event, they arrived fast, probably today, the feedback was left on my other account sometime this morning. So 4 days for a #10 envelope with postage stamps on it to travel to the US.

It's good to know the untracked letters are moving so quickly. I was concerned about my shipping time (which is Economy Shipping on the stamp listings) that maybe that wasn't enough time before they could file an INR, but this went pretty fast.

C.

[cottagewoman]

4 different item types sent all with different HTS codes and CoO - all have cleared in 1 day as normal.

[thegrandtoywizard]

Shipped a lot of 3 Vtech kids gaming cartridges (marked made in China - 2004) valued at $20 USD. Shipped via Canada Post on May 6. Was delivered in recipient’s mailbox today, May 15. No mention of taxes or tariffs.

[videotimeplus]

Sold a pack of Xbox one games May 12 to the USA, COO Mexico, and was marked as delivered yesterday (May 17) with no issues.

[jtg204]

Sent two at same time on May 15 and they've both gone through different customs locations in the usual time now.  Origins marked as Thailand (Hot Wheels).

Tracked Packet USA
May 15 9AM Dropped off
May 16 5:42PM Toronto-A
May 17 9:48AM ISC Chicago
(no inbound customs status at all)
May 18 10:30AM Out of Customs

Xpresspost USA
May 15 9AM Dropped off
May 17 3:09AM Toronto-A
May 17 7:35PM ISC New York
Inbound into customs (no timestamp)
May 17 10:59PM Out of Customs

[lotzofuniquegoodies]

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@jtg204 wrote:

Sent two at same time on May 15 and they've both gone through different customs locations in the usual time now.  Origins marked as Thailand (Hot Wheels).

Tracked Packet USA
May 15 9AM Dropped off
May 16 5:42PM Toronto-A
May 17 9:48AM ISC Chicago
(no inbound customs status at all)
May 18 10:30AM Out of Customs

Xpresspost USA
May 15 9AM Dropped off
May 17 3:09AM Toronto-A
May 17 7:35PM ISC New York
Inbound into customs (no timestamp)
May 17 10:59PM Out of Customs

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For comparison purposes recent international tracked shipments to USA, Italy and Finland.

USA. Calgary to Idaho. Delivered in 7 business days. Time in customs 8 hours. Product of Canada

USA. Calgary to Dallas. Delivered in 8 business days. Time in customs 28 hours. Product of USA

Italy. Delivered in 8 business days  delivered on a Sunday. Time in customs approx 1 hour. Product of China

Finland. Should be delivered tomorrow. So 7 business days. Time in customs 35 mins.  Product of USA

[john_koenig99]

Sold watch to US based customer (Miami).

It went smoothly through customs in Chicago. Two days, as per tracking. Total transit time : 8  days. 

[byto253]

Tracked Packet  Ottawa to Detroit.  Dropped off on the 12th, delivered today on the 17th.  

[nhl_automotive]

No issue whatsover. None of my American customers have been charge any tariffs. I put the tariff code and country of origin and it goes through customs quickly. Have had some problems with estimated delivery times the past week and right now they are hurting sales. Going to be switching from Canada Post to UPS again to avoid the looming strike. Unfortunately this will cost more to ship small items.

[musicyouneed]

All 10 sent to the US from May 1 to May 11/25 have been delivered.  No issues.  All CD's, all made in either US or Canada.

[38e_avenue]

Everything as usual, but occasionally I get a weird tracking, like this: 

2 weeks at NYC Customs? The item was UK made. 

[cottagewoman]

That seems stupidly long - have a feeling it was most likely out of customs sooner, they just didn't scan next hub out and it got stuck, especially if going to Illinois/Indiana.