Shipping From Ontario

[hundredkilo]

Anyone know the approx cost of shipping a rifle from Ontario to Alberta?

[waldedw]

$40 expedited, signature required, without insurance

[Grizzly Adams]

Originally Posted by waldedw

$40 expedited, signature required, without insurance

They wanted 22. to ship my BIL a baseball style hat in a bubble envelope.

Grizz

[averagejoe]

Originally Posted by Grizzly Adams

They wanted 22. to ship my BIL a baseball style hat in a bubble envelope.

Grizz

There are minimum rates for parcels. Within Alberta it is around $15 and can be up to $25 or so out to NS or PEI. If the item is small enough the new flat rate boxes can be much cheaper for parcels going a long ways.


You can play with the shipping rate calculator here to find different rates. https://www.canadapost.ca/cpotools/a...execution=e1s1

[Hawkeye]

The cost certainly varies according to the size and remoteness of the place where it is going. In my experience, if the postal code of where I am shipping has a zero for the second "digit", that means it is a small/remote place and shipping costs will always be higher.
Costs are also higher for larger packages (length matters), round packages and of course, heavier packages. For a rifle, taking the action out of the stock and shipping in a shorter box should reduce the cost.
Find a box that will work and get an estimate of the weight and put all of that into the Canada Post rate estimator (be aware of Imperial versus Metric, so you don't put in inches for centimeters). I find my bathroom scale is fairly accurate for my estimates; if my package is not heavy enough by itself to register, I just put it on a heavier box, weight the two, remove my package to be shipped and reweigh; the difference is my package.
Good luck.

[Kezh1729]

I’ve done that, $40 somewhere there