I owe everyone some info on how I trucked all my PO box purchases from the US to Canada…
Luckily for me, my PO box was really helpful. They work directly with Transgroup (http://www.transgroup.com/transborder_canada_en.aspx) for trucking product across the border.
How it works:
- Talk to your PO box and make sure they can organize all your items into one stack.
- Then ask them if they have a trucking company they work with who can send it up. If not try contacting http://www.transgroup.com/transborder_canada_en.aspx and see if they can pick up.
- I paid Transgroup $60 for up to 100lbs of product so the more you have the better.
- You then contact border buddy and provide them a list of everything you are looking to import and provide receipts. They also need the address of every company you are buying from which is annoying as F. For example I picked a KITH retail locations for KITH online orders and it was fine. for SNKRS I used Nike HQ in Beaverton.
- Border Buddy can guide you through whats need, how it works etc. They were good about it but slow. Took about 5 days to get my paperwork done. If you are in BC you can email [email protected] ATTN: cherie in the title and she can help
- Border Buddy charges about $40 to do all the paperwork and brokerage.
- Then they send paperwork to your PO box or the trucking company and they take care of the rest from there.
- Once my paperwork was done my packages were picked up and delivered the next morning.
You pay taxes for everything. In my case, I had a ton of stuff and paid $500 CAD in taxes but w/e. I would have paid the same tax crossing the border anyways. The $110 I paid to TransGroup and Border Buddy saved me 4 hours of time driving, crossing, picking up etc.
All in all a smooth experience for me and I will probably never cross the border again for the sole purpose to pick up. I’ll wait for stuff to pile up and then send it over in one big truckload.
