What Shipping Courier Companies Can I Use To Send Letters and Parcels To Cuba from Canada?

Question

*EDIT*Okay I just checked out Canadapost & clothing&shoes are restricted????

In addition to items considered non-mailable matter by the Canada Post Corporation Act & Regulations (see chapter "Non-mailable Matter") and Purolator International regulations (see section 3 “Unacceptable Items” of the “Purolator™ International” chapter), the following are prohibited:

Alcohol

Animal produce

Blood products

Chewing gum

Clothing and footwear, used

Cotton plants and seeds

Currency

Earth and minerals

Electronic recording systems

Electronics

Foodstuff in general, except conserved products industrially processed and vacuum packed

Hair-dye

Hermetically sealed containers

Hidden objects

Lottery tickets and circulars

Maps

Medicine in non-original packaging

Recording tape, films and photographic papers

Scent

Spare parts for motor vehicles

Specimens of flora and fauna in any form

Spectacles and binoculars

Tobacco

Weapons of any kind and ammunition.

Answer 1

Try CanadaPost using their Xpresspost (which is like courier, has a tracking number and can require signature if you prefer)...postal services do work in Cuba...but again, it can be fast, it can be slow.

I'm a little surprised at the letter costing that much though. Are you sure it was calculated correctly?

Call them directly and see what they say.

In the meantime I'll check something.

Answer 2

$146 - there must be something wrong.

We use DHL for documents - it is normally ~ $50 or $60 even for quite a bundle of papers.

You could also try Copa.