Hi all, just wondering if any of you guys know if Sea Freight is worth doing in order to ship a (24) box of BBQ Shapes to Canada? Is Air Freight better, despite cost?
Also, what would be the cheapest/quickest/reliable method to ship to Canada? What would you use?
They'd probably be a bit soggy by the time they arrived
I send stuff to/from Canada somewhat regularly. Sending them by Sea can easily take 3-4 months… Send them by air!
They're going to be horrendously expensive to send!
You'll pay by volume cause the weight is negligible.
FedEx used to do a shipping box for $50 that you'd get close to 24 packs into.. (might have to remove the boxes and just send the bags though)
They must really want those BBQ Shapes.
It may be cheaper to buy them from an Oz food shop and have them ship them to them, like this:
https://www.simplyoz.com/products/on_sale_-_limited_quantiti…
That website is in the USA not Canada so it won't help. Plus when you ship from the US to Canada the reciever generally recieves a big tax bill for the duty on the items as well.
Cheapy,
Also make sure you declare that it is a gift and that it is valued at less than $50 (if that's the case). If it is valued at more than $50, customs will often hit the recipeint with GST and/or duty on the declared value.
If tax is charged, the shipper might also charge a "brokerage" fee. If you use Austraila Post the fee is usually only around $5 (again charged to the recipient), beware using other private shiping companies like Fedex or UPS the are known for charging huge $30-$60 "brokerage" fees.
Your best bet is likely just to send it airmail, especially if you want it to arrive before christmas, as you've already missed the boat for seamail for xmas, See: http://auspost.com.au/about-us/christmas-sea-mail.html
Thank you for the responses. Ill send it Airmail.
Sorry I can't help except to say, mail going out is horrendously horrendous, whereas mail coming in is reasonable.