Has anyone here ever used a mail/package forwarding service when ordering BVs (and other precious cargo) from another country? I am thinking of somewhere like Jomashop - where they charge a huge shipping fee for "international" shipping (for my nameless black tote just the shipping fee was $103!) and then use UPS - which is the worst courier for adding on even more processing fees to get something through customs. Then there are lots of other places that won't even ship to Canada in the first place. The forwarding services sound like they are a good idea - ship to a US address, thereby paying the generally much more reasonable regular US domestic shipping - and then they send it on to you, presumably at a much better shipping rate (and hopefully not using UPS)... But I do worry about how they treat the package while they have it (for example, some of the services talk about "repackaging" it - I really don't want someone handling my BV other than with the appropriate love and respect!).
Of course jburgh did offer at one point to have my precious BV cargo sent to her in Seattle and then I could come down to pick it up... which is very tempting but unfortunately not always a viable option!!
Anyone with any experience/horror stories/recommendations? I found one of the services (mbex) that has a one time trial before you have to commit too much - I may do that to see how it works and if it really saves any shipping costs (now I just have to decide what to buy...).
Of course jburgh did offer at one point to have my precious BV cargo sent to her in Seattle and then I could come down to pick it up... which is very tempting but unfortunately not always a viable option!!
Anyone with any experience/horror stories/recommendations? I found one of the services (mbex) that has a one time trial before you have to commit too much - I may do that to see how it works and if it really saves any shipping costs (now I just have to decide what to buy...).
