Thread: Canadian ordering from the US

I have a W&B "The clean Shaver",Frederick Reynolds and a Simmons Hardware "royal Keen cutter".

Right now I use a Merkur 38C blue handle razor with the new feather blades and Lord platinum.

I have a Edwin Jagger BBB.

For Soaps and Creams I have:

The body shop (old version) cream
TOBS Avocado
Dr. Harris Lavender
Proraso Green
Kent MWF soap

Also got an unknown barber hone that I got on the BaY for $3

Sounds like you're all set then. What are you doing for a strop?

Mark

+1 with Mark!! Patience is a virtue you will have to come to grips with when learning to use your new toy. I have never been one to boast of my patience. But it has paid off handsomely as I have learned the new skills of straight razor shaving.

A few thoughts for you to contemplate. As tempting as it is to just start attacking your face with the new blade, don't. Your face and psyche will thank you for it. Set up a plan and stick with it (as we say in scuba: plan your dive and dive your plan). Start with just the area between your sideburns and jawlines, and only WTG. Will it be BBS? Of course not. Your initial goal is to get comfortable with holding and manipulating the blade. You are going to have some blind spots where you hand is between your hand and your eyes in the mirror. Take some time to figure how to work around that. You will also need to figure out how to get the blade angle correct (somewhere around 30 degrees is optimal). A flatter angle is a little easier to work with at the beginning. Finish the shave with your normal razor.

As you get more comfortable shaving with the straight then you can start adding new facial areas and techniques (XG and finally ATG) to your routine. Advance at a pace that feels right to you. No one can't make that determination.

Don't be afraid to ask questions. We would like to see you learn properly without too many scars or much blood letting. Time and patience will reward you with something special...

I have two strops coming in as well. One longer Illinois style strop and a short travel size one.

Originally Posted by Dups

The waiting isn't what bothers me the most. What really ticks me off is that USPS and Canada Post try to make us believe that they have tracking system. Their systems are absolutely worthless. I would say that 9 times out of 10 I will get the package days before they actually update it on their website.

Things ARE changing at the Post Office, well... at the Canadian one at least. The scanning and tracking systems is being updated but considering the size of the company and the poor choice in equipment supplier it's grinding along very slowly and with lots of bugs in the system.

As for the issue of a USPS/CPC *tracked* item..... unless you had it shipped Global Express (in which case you would have had the package by now) the tracking is not really tracking. USPS scans the package on arrival at the local PO, dumps it into the outgoing mail for Canada and that's it for them. CPC only scans it when it arrives at the final distribution point when actually sent out for delivery. If you check USPS's site, it won't update until it gets the information from CPC and that adds a day or two beyond the day of delivery. The purpose of such tracking is simply to have a record of when it was sent and when it was attempted for delivery, not to keep the customer updated on where it is... that's what Global Express (USPS) and the Purolator (CPC) products are designed to provide, and at a much higher cost.

The primary delay when it comes to US/Canada shipments lies with Customs Canada. They march to the beat of their own drum, have some port states marked for increased scrutiny and that adds to the transit time in a big way. I've noted that CA and FL can be virtual black holes as far as shipping speed goes... what takes 5 days from RI or NY can take 3+ weeks from CA. Please note as well, if you go to the USPS website and check the Priority Mail products they sell, you'll see they have NO SPEED advantage over good old First Class Parcel Post, in fact on the old website a year or two ago, it was estimated that Priority Post would take one more day than regular air mail parcel. It was confusing too as the premium Canada Post product used to be call Priority Post but they were never the same product in both countries.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and suspect your razor was sent from one of the Customs flagged states, using Priority Mail, and it will arrive, but it will take a few extra days.


Regards

Kaptain "Pushing the envelope IS my job" Zero

The razor was sent from Lousiana.

Originally Posted by Dups

The razor was sent from Lousiana.

Unfortunately, I have no experience with Louisiana as far as shipping goes. And it also matters what port of entry the package was shipped to. I know most stuff comes through Ontario for Manitoba but there are other smaller ports where things move faster. I'm afraid it's a matter of taking your mind off what you are expecting by doing more shopping on Ebay. I got so carried away, I never knew what was coming or when it would get here until I checked it off on a written list I had!


Christian

EVERY time I get something shipped from the states it takes about two weeks to arrive. Nuts.

This is a Canadian site. Fendrihan.com | Razors Shaving Creams Shave Brushes

X

Cool - I thought I knew just about all the Cnd sites...I've booked mark this one.

Thanks Xman!

Mark