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From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
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Subject: Re: Shipping from USA to Canada
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.034745.2039@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 90 03:47:45 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.195623.26764@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
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In article <1990Dec12.195623.26764@watdragon.waterloo.edu> pmbergland@violet.waterloo.edu (Per Bergland) writes:
>I have to ship a computer (read 3 boxes - monitor + keybooard + system)
>from San Fransisco to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
>My problem is that I have to take it through customs myself, i.e. I cannot
>use a customs broker.

Why?  Just let the couriers do it for you.  They charge a reasonable fee,
something like $10-$15 and it saves a lot of hassles.

>Question:
>Does there exist a shipping firm (not overnight delivery) that has a depot
>in either Niagara Falls (US) or Buffalo and lets you pick it up yourself from 
>there?
>(I called UPS, but they only ship directly to persons, and I don't know
>anybody close enough in the States)

I've shipped complete computers up from the US via UPS and it wasn't much
of a hassle.  If you ship it surface it will enter Canada via Windsor where
it will get stopped by the UPS brokers there.  They will then contact you by 
phone regarding the duty & taxes owing.  Once you agree to pay the duty and 
tax they will deliver it to the Canadian destination where you will have to 
pay upon delivery.

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