When I had my porcelain studio in Alaska, we sold product to Princess Cruise
Lines. Our stuff was sold in the gift shops on the cruise ships. Most often we
shipped directly to Los Angeles, but very often we had to ship stuff to
co-incide with a ship arrive in a Canadian port so they could restock. The
company flatly refused to accept any shipment that did not go US Mail because of
the rip-off fees involved. We had to ship everything via Priority Mail into
Canada. It was never a problem, shipping through the US Mail, and breakage was
absolutely minimal., The key was good packing.

John Rodgers
88/ GL Driver

Courtney Hook wrote:

> I will jump in right here, and defend Chris re:UPS to Canada. These guys are
> absolute pirates with no conscience whatsoever. I had a 20 dollar pair of
> boots shipped up here via UPS, and they charged me 22 dollars in brokerage
> fees to get them!!! That is absolutely ridiculous. When I contacted their
> "complaints" dept. or whatever it's called, they basically said too bad,
> don't use UPS anymore. I have always had things shipped via US Post since
> then, and never been charged anything except the standard 5 dollar fee
> Canada Post puts on any parcel arriving from vendors in the US. The 5
> dollars is punishment for us Canucks for not buying in Canada.
> Courtney Hook
>          " Canada - The True North, Strong and Free"