phoebescollectables – thanks for the reply, your posts are very helpful!
bookstotheborder – we are still working on a US credit card, and intend to use one of the on line postage services as soon as we get the card, any recommendations?
You are right it seems a very arbitrary process, each agent seems to gives a different result. It seems to me that they take our form at face value, and only check for their favorite things. Still, it has been amazingly hassle free, I just say sorry, and that I will add whatever they ask for the next time and they let us go. One of the agents tells us to spend the fee in town and doesn’t even collect it.
I am amazed at how little help/information is available on line for this. About half the vehicles in our US post office parking lot have Ontario plates, I can just guess how their mail is getting across the border!
Maybe the brokers keep a strangle hold on the info, the ones I talked to only wanted to know how many tractor trailer loads a day I had and weren’t interested in eBay volumes.
I looked at 7533 but settled on the 7523 since we sell rubber stamps which are duty free. Do you pay duty on your books? The forms have similar content, so a change should be no problem.
I found information that seems to say ACE will not apply to 7523 transactions, I can post a link if you are interested.
I can no longer find any link that explains the $200 individual limit, but it stuck in my memory, and if you think so, it must be true.
Unfortunately, we don’t have many $200 orders, perhaps if we get busier, we will change to the 7533.
We are quite likely going to get a transponder in the new year to save messing around with cash.
Thanks!
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