Bonneville America Forums Forums Off Topic Discussion Forums Lounge What' the problem with shipping to Canada?

I buy a lot of radio controlled airplane stuff on the internet (ebay and various overseas retailers) coz either it's a lot cheaper overseas, or they have stuff we just can't get here in Australia. Generally on ebay the small time operators won't ship overseas and all claim the same reasons... "USPS loses stuff... FedEx/UPS is too expensive". They're right about FedEx/UPS, but I've never had anything lost or damaged, and I've shipped from the UK, USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, & China. I'm sure it can happen but I've never seen it, and if it does get damaged that's what insurance is for. The worst that's happened is occasionally things will take a bit longer to get here. The bigger retailers are usually quite happy to send overseas so I just go with them. If the little guys don't wanna send to me, they miss out on my business. The biggest pain in the neck for me is trying to get hold of a whole RC plane from the USA coz USPS has ridiculously small limits on the size of parcel they'll carry.

Oh well... I'll get it from China instead.