International Shipping

Arch · Post by **Arch** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 7:50 pm

Has anyone done this? What does it involve? I'm going to send some hard drives to a guy in Canada. Need some advice.

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 8:01 pm

That's hardly international (canada, it's the easiest to ship to of any country). I ship internationally weekly due to my musical equipment business.
US Postal service should be fine. Write the address on the box. Fill out an insurance form (important) for whatever it's worth. Call your local post office and ask if you need customs forms for canada. If you do, it's a tiny white form. Since you'll likely declare less than $300, you need no invoice. If over $300, include invoice.

Birds

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Jul 22, 2004 9:57 pm

Birds, you stock drum equipment?

CDN_Merlin · Post by **CDN_Merlin** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 5:11 am

Put the package as a GIFT that way the person here doesn't get dinged with duty and taxes.

Deadmeat · Post by **Deadmeat** » Fri Jul 23, 2004 9:19 am

http://www.usps.com All the info you need is there, including a postage calculator.

Birdseye · Post by **Birdseye** » Sat Jul 24, 2004 6:53 pm

yup dcrazy... anything you see in a guitar center, musicans friend, whatever

MD-2389 · Post by **MD-2389** » Sun Jul 25, 2004 12:39 pm

Actually Birds, with FedEx and UPS you have to use international forms to ship outside of the US.

Anyways Arch, all it involves is just filling out a shipping form (if using UPS or FedEx), declaring the ammount its worth, and pay. Though I ended up using USPS to ship some parts to New Zealand to a friend of mine in Auckland. All that I had to do was bring in the box, fill out shipping and insurance forms, and hunt for some stupid sticker so the stupid moron behind the counter could make it trackable. (Don't bother using the USPS tracking service...as soon as it leaves the local hub they won't track it.) If you use USPS, MAKE SURE you tell the clerk behind the counter that for whatever reason it couldn't be delivered to send it back to you. (FedEx and UPS do this automatically.)