[Boatanchors] Canadian Shipping Charges

[manualman at juno.com]

Obviously, the answers to your questions should come from the particular
selling vendors in question and not from all the "shipping experts" here
on the forum. And, if you're so inclined, you can play with the Canadian
postal rate shipping calculations on their web site. Their rates seem
dependent on dimensions of the carton, weight, and value of the item.
Other international shippers like UPS and other shipping carriers, also
have web sites where you can compute shipping charges for a particular
length/width/height/weight/value carton to see if the Canadians are
ripping you off (which I seriously doubt). One might also have to
consider possible insurance costs and the shipper's cost for materials,
or other shipping handling costs.  I can recall several years ago when I
bought a new rotator from an outfit in Canada, not only did I have to pay
for the rotator and the actual UPS shipping charge to NJ, UPS also billed
me an additional $40 for customs duties.

In the world of domestic and international shipping with its imedded and
external costs, shipping costs may be perceived as not to be fair, but if
you stop and analyze the entire process, you'll generally find that the
world is not ripping you off.

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com


On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 23:46:54 -0400 (EDT) L L bahr 
<pulsarxp at embarqmail.com> writes:
> Then explain to me if the two post offices have about the same rates, 
> why is it always true sellers on epay in Canada ALWAYS WITHOUT 
> EXCEPTION list postal charges from double to four times what it 
> would cost me to ship something to them from Houston, Texas?  I can 
> see sending something a premium way costing more, but I never see 
> any freight charge from Canada to the US ever seeming anywhere 
> reasonable or about what it would cost me to send them the same 
> item.  (It makes sense you would list something the cheapest way to 
> send something if you were trying to sell an item and not state some 
> super costly way.  That is what most sellers in the US do or they at 
> least give you an option as to how you want it shipped.  Not the 
> case when you see a Canadian seller selling something.) You are 
> telling me the cost can be about the same.  However, I never see 
> this to be true.
> 
> Lee, w0vt