Holy Cow!

[orangehaggis]

If kiltstore.net would offer standard parcelforce airmail service, you could avoid those tariffs. It's a shame they won't do that ... I'm going to opt for the surface shipping on my next order!

Mark O - Ohio

[Archangel]

If kiltstore.net would offer standard parcelforce airmail service, you could avoid those tariffs. It's a shame they won't do that ... I'm going to opt for the surface shipping on my next order!

Mark O - Ohio

It looks like they do. One of the reasons companies hesitate is that buyers ask to have it shipped as gift or used in the hope that will reduce costs. It usually won't and the shipper risks fraud charges. I try to insist on regular shipping and agree to insurance and signing. The advantage is that the duties are random whereas a courier company is 100%. And they have a higher broker rate. In Canada, if you're hit, it's passed to a broker that charges a lower rate and you can pay them online. (FedEx once sent me a bill that excluded every method of payment, go figure. I told them that my time on their hide-and-seek phone machine covered it. Never heard from them again.)

There's another tricky thing to online tracking by post office shipments. It seems to disappear at the border. What actually happens is that it switches over to the your national post office tracking system. (What I mean is that a parcel I'm tracking through USPS looks like it's trapped in customs and after a few days, it's lost to USPS. If I use the same tracking number on Canada Post, it shows that it's passed on the way to my house.)