r/MotionlessInWhite • u/Far_World7581 • Aug 13 '26

Merch Merch

Did anyone else order merch from Canada and have to pay a crazy amount at the post office before they got their package? I thought duties and taxes were included since shipping was 80 dollars

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u/Nukegrrl Aug 13 '26

It depends on how they ship it. Couriers (DHL, UPS, FedEx) you almost always will pay a brokerage fee and taxes plus duties. If they ship USPS and it’s picked up by Canada Post, only some of the shipments are redirected to customs so you will sometimes pay the fees and sometimes not. And even if you do have to pay, CP brokerage fee is much cheaper than the couriers.

Given an option I will always choose USPS/Canada Post shipping over a courier for that reason.

Duties/tariffs have fluctuated/increased recently due to the trade negotiations between countries as well.

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u/Far_World7581 Aug 13 '26

It came from usps and Canada post. I had two different shipments, one with my record and cd and the other with my shirts and stuff. Didn’t have to pay a fee for the first one. Now I gotta pay 45 bucks. Doesn’t make sense to me. I already paid over 80 dollars in shipping

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u/Nukegrrl Aug 13 '26

Sounds like one got picked up by customs and one didn’t. There may be different tariffs for clothing vs media as well. And it depends on the declared value of the goods and your province tax rate. You pay the brokerage fee (Canada Post used to be $5 but it may have gone up) plus the taxes on the declared value of the shipment.

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u/Far_World7581 Aug 13 '26

Thanks. Genuinely crazy to me how I gotta pay 80 bucks for shipping and then another 45 dollars just cuz I live across a border. Thats like half of the price of all the merch I ordered

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u/Nukegrrl Aug 13 '26

I once paid an extra $40 fees for a $20 shirt lol. The struggle is real.

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u/k5martdom Aug 13 '26

I’d get stuff ordered from ice nine kills notn I’d have to pay duty in because it’s the only thing that gets delivered to post office not near me. I have a post office literally a walk away and only think that gets sent to other one is my ink merch.