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[xox]

What is a good courier company that is fast and pretty cheap?
I'm looking to have my family send me some items so I was wondering what is the easiet for them.

[Ya-ta Boy]

My mom sends me stuff by regular post office and it arrives in under 2 weeks...usally around 10 days.

[Novernae]

Shipping from the US is fabulous. Just use Global express (the second most expensive) and it'll be here in under a week, and for much cheaper than a courrier. We had a package sent regular post and it turned up back at the place we ordered from 6 months later.
If you're from Canada, be prepared to pay through the teeth (at least double USPS), for the slowest one that will seem lost for the first 3 months, then maybe show up. (I'm a little bitter about Canada Post and their whopping 5% discount to small businesses)
If you're from anywhere else, I'm sorry, I don't know. Though I had a package sent from Ireland once by UPS and it wasn't too bad.

[bombenhagen]

I'm not in Korea yet so take this for what it is worth. I was a hardcore Ebay seller for two years (paid 2 years worth of university through Ebay!) and have found that shipping stuff overseas isn't an exact science. Like someone posted above, Canada Post is a joke. Its never a good idea to ship anything standard mail overseas because it will just take too long. Air mail seems to be the best, most cost effective option. The difference between airmail and the more expensive methods is not big deal if you are only getting cans of beans and socks sent over.

PS- I should mention that that a lot of Canada Post's problems are not 100% their fault. It all depends on the relationship (for lack of a better word) with the other postal service they are dealing with. Canada-US is horrible, I have found that Canada China is pretty good, Canada-Taiwan/Japan/Korea have been iffy for me. The best has been Canada-anywhere in Europe. I once sent two exact packages at the same time, one to Las Vegas, the other to Berlin. The dude in Berlin got his 4 days before my guy in Vegas got his. Go figure...

How any of that answers your question I don't know but I typed it out so I'm posting it

[Kimchieluver]

When you send stuff to Korea from Canada, Canada post transports it via containership. They wait till the ship is full before it leaves port. My mother was informed of this upon inquiring why one package took 3 weeks during Christmas season and one packege took 3 months in the summer.

[bombenhagen]