5d ago

Buying Canadian from South Korea

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:

I need a shipping service that is Canadian owned that I can use to forward parcels to Korea, effectively replacing Amazon's shipping.
I'm in search of Canadian made bedding.
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.
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?

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

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

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
- 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.

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