Okay here is everything that was sent to post offices today regarding August 29th.
I would recommend everyone download the Zonos app and play around with it (or check out the web version at app.zonosprepay.com). It will be required for all US shipments at the post office (customers will need to pay the duty directly on the app, then it will give them a code that we can enter into the transaction on the computer). Unclear if it will be needed for online shipping labels or whether the app functionality will just be built into Canada Post’s API. I suspect it will still be needed even for online label purchases because I doubt Canada Post was able to embed that functionality in the time frame they had available. We’ll find out tomorrow (Aug 28) as that’s when they’ll start requiring it.
The app is kind of neat. It has an AI functionality where you can take a picture of the item and it will give you the country of origin and HS Code if it can determine it (may be helpful for non-USA applications). If you create a shipment in the app you can add things and it will tell you what you have to pay. There is a processing fee that is applied based on some calculation I’m unaware of - from my playing around it seems as though it starts at $2.99 (even for gifts or items with no duty owing) and increases as the value of the shipment increases (or maybe it’s as the value of the duty owed increases?).
There do seem to be some glitches at the moment. It’s defaulting a lot of things to China COO on my app if you try and edit a shipment or add something manually. Hopefully it’s all fixed by tomorrow.
Welcome to the new normal lol.
