this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
30 points (96.9% liked)

Canada

9021 readers
2093 users here now

What's going on Canada?

Related Communities

🍁 Meta

🗺️ Provinces / Territories

🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.

🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.

💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales

🗣️ Politics

🍁 Social / Culture

Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
otter@lemmy.ca
mp3@lemmy.ca
30
Buying Canadian from South Korea (lemm.ee)
submitted 19 hours ago by LucJenson@lemm.ee to c/canada@lemmy.ca
9 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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:

  1. I need a shipping service that is Canadian owned that I can use to forward parcels to Korea, effectively replacing Amazon's shipping.

  2. I'm in search of Canadian made bedding.

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

top 9 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve even tried local cobblers here in Korea with no success.

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 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 3 hours ago

I get the same treatment looking for a tall bicycle here.

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.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Canadian high quality linens, pillows and duvets. We have been buying pillows from here for over a decade. We found them in a hotel we stayed at one time and loved them. They also make very nice high quality bedding that we have also purchased in the past.

https://skylark-owl.ca/

[–] LucJenson@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

Awesome stuff, thanks! I'll reach out to them about shipping if I can't find a third-party shipping option.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

For the shoes, if you want to avoid the US, you’re looking at Europe.

[–] LucJenson@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

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.