I`m ordering a camera soon , what should i put as address cause the package wont fit in our small mailboxes?
Or should i just put my homeaddress and pick it up there whenever im up?

If you get a package shipped to you in residence, they actually keep it behind the Service Desk if it doesn't fit in your mailbox and just put a slip of paper in your box saying that you have a package waiting to be picked up. You just take that paper over to the desk, show your student ID, and exchange it for your package! So you can just use your regular campus mailing address.

However, it does depend where you're getting the item. I bought some stuff online when I lived in res and had to go pick it up at the Shoppers Drugmart in Westdale (I think because there was a duty on it; I don't actually remember).

Originally Posted by lorend

However, it does depend where you're getting the item....(I think because there was a duty on it; I don't actually remember).

That would make sense. If you're ordering it from the States, for example, they may impose taxes/duties coming across the border, and the Service Desk people won't pay those for you - so it'll likely just go back to the nearest (real) post office (which would be at the Shoppers in Westdale). You'd have to go there to pay them in order for them to give you your package.

I've only paid duty three times. Once from the UK, and twice from the States; about three years apart, and from different companies. I think the company may have something to do with it as well.

It definitely does vary by company, and the declared value on the customs declaration form (stuck to the outside of your package) also has an effect. For example, NEVER get a cross-border shipment sent by UPS Ground. UPS Express is ok, but Ground will charge a brokerage fee to take it across the border that often is more expensive than the item you ordered itself. Most other courier services (including UPS Express service, oddly enough) won't have this.