Hi, Guest
11-05-2005, 06:59 AM
they are completely seperate.
USPS is the the US's postal serivce. They have an **AGREEMENT** with canada post. along with MANY other countries. Just because CP delievers USA's mail doesn;t make them the same, are we the same as say Japan post? No. Of course not.
lets take letters for example.
US will deliver 10 million letters this year from canada in exchange for 10 million letters that CP will deliver from ppl the states. straight exchange. The same goes for parcels. 10 million parcels (exagerated) at a given weight for an exchange of the same.
What you get taxed at the border has NOTHING to do with Canada post. Its the Customs and border agency that deals with that. Parcels coming in from the states are examined and randomly taxed. Yes it pretty damn random. No rhyme or reason, you could ship the same item 100 times from the states to here and not get taxed each and every time. yes value plays a role but things slip though.
I had to explain this over and over again when I worked at the postal outlet in my city to disgruntled package recievers from teh states.
USPS is the the US's postal serivce. They have an **AGREEMENT** with canada post. along with MANY other countries. Just because CP delievers USA's mail doesn;t make them the same, are we the same as say Japan post? No. Of course not.
lets take letters for example.
US will deliver 10 million letters this year from canada in exchange for 10 million letters that CP will deliver from ppl the states. straight exchange. The same goes for parcels. 10 million parcels (exagerated) at a given weight for an exchange of the same.
What you get taxed at the border has NOTHING to do with Canada post. Its the Customs and border agency that deals with that. Parcels coming in from the states are examined and randomly taxed. Yes it pretty damn random. No rhyme or reason, you could ship the same item 100 times from the states to here and not get taxed each and every time. yes value plays a role but things slip though.
I had to explain this over and over again when I worked at the postal outlet in my city to disgruntled package recievers from teh states.
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