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Originally Posted by Carlo
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I will not give up on finding my bayonets. Could you imagine if rare bayonets ended up being destroyed because the package couldn't be deilvered by the post office???
Normally, I would like to have a courier company deliver the bayonet, but that is a problem -- at least in Canada. Here, courier companies classify the bayonet as a "weapon", although the current governmental import law states that is is completely legal to ship. Regardless, courier companies will refuse to ship the item (FedEx, UPS, DHL, Purolator...) if they know it is a bayonet. The only safe way to ship is USPS. When it enters Canada, the local Canadian postal system (CanadaPost) rightfully knows the proper import laws and allows the safe trasnsport of bayonets within the country.
I have had previous bayonet sales stalled since UPS would not accept the item to ship to Canada. Just my crappy luck that the major time I needed an expensive item sent by USPS, the postal system had a fire at the import office in Canada.
Additionally, I am at the mercy of the seller. Every time, I say that I will spend all extra money to get Express Mail from USPS, which is the safest to Canada, but most sellers from the US refuse and do not like this -- they will only ship Priority, such as this case, even though I said I will pay them for all Express costs. I wish I was more adamant with the seller to have Express....