Salut, fellow Canadians! I moved to Korea many years ago, and up until recently, I had done any international shopping via Amazon.
I'm looking for a few things and am in need of help:
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I need a shipping service that is Canadian owned that I can use to forward parcels to Korea, effectively replacing Amazon's shipping.
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I'm in search of Canadian made bedding.
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I worked in George Richards/Grafton many moons ago, so I know they're probably my best bet for big and tall clothes, but am looking to see if anything else has become an option since I left.
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Shoes... I'm a 16EEE sized shoe... I don't even know where to begin to find replacements for my boats-for-feet coverings. I've even tried local cobblers here in Korea with no success.
Any ideas?
8 Comments
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
For the shoes, if you want to avoid the US, you’re looking at Europe.
LucJenson@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Solid idea there. I'll have to go visit an EU community to ask similar questions after I finish sourcing what I can from Canada.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
Okay, how did that go, lol? Did they tell you to go back up the beanstalk?
It's hard enough finding shoes in size 14 here. I can only imagine looking for 16EEE (is that like double-wide?) in Asia.
LucJenson@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Poorly. They said they don't have patterns that big. I offered to source them. Still no. Fair enough, I suppose. I get the same treatment looking for a tall bicycle here.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
What do you mean you don't want to look like this guy below?!
God....check your privilege bud!
Hard /s there if it wasn't obvious.
Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
LucJenson@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Awesome stuff, thanks! I'll reach out to them about shipping if I can't find a third-party shipping option.
abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us · 2 pts · 1y
Found a couple of options for international shipping, though I haven't tried any of them myself yet.
https://torontoshippingcompany.com/faqs/
https://www.canpar.com/en/shipping/shipping/_international.htm
LucJenson@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Suoer! Thank you! I will do some digging this weekend :) I've got a group of fellow Canadians here who are interested, too, so I'll also pass it along to them.