hannah1001

With all the snow arriving and Halloween over, my thoughts are turning to Christmas. In a desperate attempt to be organised this year (not my usual forte! ) I'm starting to think about sending Christmas parcels to the UK. What's the best way to do this? Is Canada Post the way to go, or is there a cheaper/more reliable alternative? It'll just be relatively small boxes, but we have quite a few to send!
Similarly, do folks in the UK just use Royal Mail to post to Canada, or is there a better alternative?

Thanks for any advice!

bats

Order online from UK stores such as John Lewis, Marks and Spencer and get stuff delivered gift wrapped

Siouxie

+1

Amazon have a similar service..

When my son was still in the UK and couldn't fly over, I ordered all his gifts (and Christmas food) online. So much easier and no worrying about whether Canada Post / Royal Mail would stuff up!

JamesM

+2

Canada Post is really expensive for international parcels.

Stinkypup

We send no prezzies - we also buy from the above mentioned online suppliers. We have also bought things like hampers, plants, Thorntons Hotel Chocolat online. I have done a couple of hampers now and you can make up your own from their site so you can put in what you think your recipient might like- it ranges from nice old cheeses, booze, salmon, pate, sweeties, shortbread anything you could find in a decent grocers/ posh bit of a supermarket. Obviously opening on the day might be a problem! Also Fido the pooch might shred the presents and scoff the perishables once he got a sniff of them under the tree.

hannah1001

Oh no! It's not looking promising!
As it's our first Christmas here we were wanting to send some local Okanagan gifts. I might just have to take the high costs on the chin this year.... and follow your suggestions in the future.

Stinkypup

You mean wine ...

hannah1001

Cheese certainly wouldn't survive under the tree for long with our cheese-hound around!!

hannah1001

And don't forget gin!

Stinkypup

Our old boy would also disregard even chicken preferring his absolute favourite, cheese...dogs are funny creatures

Stinkypup

This is in town here- very nice apparently...

https://okanaganspirits.com/

hannah1001

I may take some persuading that BC whisky is as good as a Scottish single malt, but I'm willing to do a taste test (purely in the name of scientific rigour of course!). I've been very impressed with BC gin - our local Crush Pad vineyard does an amazing gin called Narrative.

Is there a limit on sending booze to Blighty?

Stinkypup

Yes, sadly it looks like there is- none

https://www.canadapost.ca/tools/pg/m...Gnonmail-e.asp

You can't mail animals either... Why the hell not??

Siouxie

I found some Okanagan wine that's available in the UK for you

Burrowing Owl 2012 Meritage

M&S do Meyer Pinot Noir but they are out of stock.

Quails' Gate Wine | Fine Wines | Cellier UK < also have Burrowing Owl wine, use the dropdown on the left

Amazon

Gin: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ungava-Cana.../dp/B00GAU8AGA

and what about this? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kicking-Hor...itish+columbia

I was quite surprised at the range of products available from BC on Amazon UK.

hannah1001

You're an absolute star!