Shipping Tea to Canada
I know this has been a painful experience, shipping between the US and Canada, but when I just purchased International First Class with USPS online for an 8ounce package it only cost me $3.90 which is close to what it cost to ship within the US.
Has anyone seen a decrease in cost or is this unusual?
If anyone in Canada is willing to help me test the rates on the US side please let me know because I will take the time at looking at how it all works out on our end here; but I think I may have found a few tips/tricks. I just need to track the speed and quality since I haven’t done it this way before today.
(Really hoping it stays/is this way!)
Interesting! I recently sent out the smallest possible bubble mailer swap and because I kept it tiny, it was $7.50 CAD. No tracking or time estimate, and it is treated like regular mail. Anything more than a carefully packed ounce or two and it would have gone into the teens and twenties. Canada Post is a jerk.
Would you be up to me sending you something? I am trying to see if certain areas are different because I am use to paying almost $10, but $3.90 came up and I find that quite reasonable.
I can’t really afford to actually buy anything from your store (CAD sucks!) but I’m open to a teeny swap or something if you’d like. I am in Nova Scotia which is not likely to be your cheapest option though.
I don’t do Liquid Proust Teas business on here, this is in regards to swaps.
I am just curious to see how the pricing works
Right, I knew that. I wonder if they charge by distance from shipper to receiver or just a general US to CAD rate.
I do not know, but we shall test it here soon when I get some more swap packages ready :)
The PayPal link does not calculate Canadian correctly if you were using that. I always switch to the regular USPS site for international.
orrr…paypal just gets a big discount coz they are a major client and they share the savings with their clients??? :)
They Paypal site also doesn’t print out the scan sheet that is supposed to be handed to the carrier – they scan it and hand it back.
I go by the etsy calculator (so I don’t have to cough up an address like on Paypal – it’s the same prices) and an 8oz package is $8.51 or $9.45 if I paid at the post office. Shipping internationally goes up per oz.
I just shipped a 13 oz box to Roswell Strange, from KY to Saskatoon SK, it was $10.58 and that reflected a $1.07 savings for buying online.
Is everyone using First Class or Priority when they ship?
First class for international. It’s redonkulous to ship priority internationally. People ask, and it’s like $30.
Once it’s over 13oz for domestic I do priority as that’s the limit for paypal.
If you figure out how to ship to Canada cheap you will be my hero. A month ago i sent 2 packages. each was about a pound. I paid $17 and $25 ;(
I don’t find it’s much more expensive shipping to US than it is shipping within Canada. The only difference is, I don’t get a tracking number with the US shipments and if I want it it’s double the price.
I ship to Canada on a regular basis on USPS.com and the price for First-Class International for 8oz is $8.51. The absolute cheapest you can ship from the US to Canada using First-Class International is $6.39, and that’s for a 1oz package.
If you got it cheaper than that through USPS.com then there was either a very lucky glitch or wrong info entered. :-P
Short list of US to Canada pricing using USPS First-Class International:
1-2oz=$6.39
3-4oz = $7.43
5-8oz = $8.51
9oz = $9.27
Here’s the shipping label from Liquid Proust with our swap.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO LEGIT!!!
Thanks for posting this as I forgot to take a picture.
8 ounces $3.90 and I know how I did it, time to test it again!
Hmm. Very strange. Perhaps it was that you marked it as commercial sample?
Ahhh no, I see what he did. He shipped “large envelope” which has to be between 1/4 and 3/4" thick. Any thicker than 3/4" it goes up to $8.51
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