Hey Rebecca. I’ll be honest, we don’t know and that’s what makes me nervous about folks banking on using this to build their trip around it because there just hasn’t been any information on people that have tried. This is the kind of thing that can change in an instant and also different airports may be handling it differently. On top of that, you have your home airline to deal with and they might disregard this because they probably don’t even believe it’s a real thing anymore. To play it safe, I’d still try to go the proper visa route but if you want to give it a shot, definitely do let me know how it goes!

It might have to be a risk you’re willing to take but we’d recommend having a back up booking elsewhere in case.

That is so bizarre and definitely not how it should work but glad they sorted it out. You definitely got lucky and hoping there aren’t any nasty surprises later!

Well, that was really interesting.

Feb 8 started the process.

Feb 10 came here to comment and to call them again as I hadn’t received paperwork after 48h. They said they hadn’t got the paperwork from the wherever and that I should have it in 24h

Feb 13, today still nothing so I call again and the agent simply cancelled the brokerage fees and charged me only what was on the government section of the invoice, saving $140.

I’m expecting two parcels on the same shipment and since I received two emails both asking for money I had thought the second tracking number would have a separate payment to make, but when I was transferred to yet another agent he said both were already paid. Lol.

Here’s hoping I don’t get any surprise invoices from ups, but thanks for the guide anyway! Got me where I was going regardless.

It is very interesting and useful.

I plan to trip in America and I will make Hertz rental car.

So, I try to input CDP 795092 ( it is master card SMB that you are introduce in this page .)

It makes best result for me.

So, I try to search this CDP in Google.

I can find this page :
https://www.hertz.ie/rentacar/partner/index.jsp?targetPage=IT_Master_Card.jsp&selectedPartnerCode=

It looks for “Italy Master card holders”.

I am Korean and have Master card also.

But When I pick a rental car in Hertz counter, does counter staff check I am Italian (with Passport)?

And Should I have Master card issued from Italy?

Thank you.

No worries! This was in late October!

Next morning googled then phone number, called and was told the item not delivered because I owed ‘fees’. I thought this was ok as it was probably import fees which are legit. But asked why the tracker showed delivery attempted when nobody actually attempted it. Then they told me I can come to the warehouse and pay there, a total of about CAD40. That felt like too much on a USD34 parcel! But I said that I will come to their warehouse after work tomorrow.

Before I finished work a UPS delivery guy knocked on the door and said I owe C$39.xx. I paid him but still was not sure why it was so high. How can you import anything for business at that cost?

Then I Googled “UPS charge on import” and learned that I paid my share to feed the fat cat…

That aside though, I still wonder how can they get away with this. Luckily my loss was not that much but I read people paying large sums to these companies.

Googling “Marketplace, UPS” next.

To be honest, at the moment, I’m not sure if the program is still in effect with everything going on and I’d say to rely on it to get into China might be a bit risky. To answer your question though, I know that there’s a Guangzhou South Railway Station line that goes to Zhuhai Railway Station which is across from Macau where you then have to take the train. All of this complexity really makes me nervous to attempt something like this because it could breakdown in any number of ways.

Best of luck!! I hope it all works out. Yes, this one is more recent having gone through it myself with UPS. The previous guide was a bit more DHL-specific but the process is pretty similar.

This guide is a little different than another guide I saw stating you had to pick up the papers from the ups hub, but this one is much more recent so I hope I just have to do the steps listed here.

The guy on the phone did ask if the airport UPS hub is ok for me but he didn’t say what for which has me somewhat concerned. Guess I just got to play the waiting game for now.

Amazing!! It’s going to be an awesome trip. For exchanging money, the easiest is to use cash and USD would be easiest and the most favourable rate-wise. I’m not sure if they would take credit card actually so it’s best to have cash ready before you go.

Hey Will!
Thanks for all the amazing information. It helped out a lot – plus all the information in your blogs! We leave Sunday so super excited about it :)
One last question for you, exchanging money at the Cairo airport – can you use VISA or would it be best to bring cash and exchange that into EGP? Do they take CAD or just USD?
Thanks again and hope you’re still travelling!
Amanda

Thanks Naveed! Yeah I didn’t go as prepared as I wanted to be when we went and so we had to learn a lot on the fly as so much has changed since other blogs had written about the region. Make sure to check out our Atacama travel guide as well if you haven’t yet!

Yeah, I’d say in that case it probably isn’t worth it. The only way to self-declare is to go to the special in-land CBSA offices.

Thanks for stopping by!! You can never go wrong with Sausalito :)

Oh that is awesome! The taller users will definitely rejoice!

You should be able to although sometimes UPS might want you to wait until it’s been accessed customs/duty when it has cleared customs. Worth a shot to get it started early!

I know, the attendant was also crazy surprised. No special tricks for booking with Europcar. They just seemed to have either a promotion going on at the time or we lucked out. Have you tried all the companies and also the car rental coupon codes?

Wouldn’t that be amazing if they did!

Yes, you should be able to book these discounts and still have your Diamond status honored.