Hi Mike in N. KY,

Thank you for the detailed reply about shipping survival items from the US into Canada. I live about 7 hours drive from SSM so a Postal Box in the US proabaly would not work for me, it seems like US Postal Service is my best bet.

Folks on this thread have been great about sending me information on where to access terrific gear in the States. I have ordered items from Cabela's before and it usually ends up costing double the catalog price (in Canadian Dollars, including the exchange rate, Duty, GST, Customs Surcharge, Shipping ...). I usually wait until one of the Canadian Mailorder Catalog Stores (LeBaron, SIR, MEC, Russell's ...) stocks the item I want (often about 2 years after the USA stores) and purchase it then.

Surfing the US stores on the Internet does make it very tempting to place an order for the very interesting stuff you have available south of the border.

Take care,

Mike