Canada to the US Customs

"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Doug" said:
US airport that has Customs. But do I need the phone number of each
specific US Customs Office? Surely there must be a central number?

Let me put it this way: If US Customs set up a central number, they'd
make it a 800 number that you couldn't dial from outside the country.


Many forward-looking American organizations/companies actually *do* realize
that we exist, and that Canada-US traffic/trade/whatever is quite extensive,
and they *do* set up 1-800 numbers that work from both countries.

It is peculiar that the Government of the USA would not be one of them.

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Icebound wrote:


"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
In a previous article, "Doug" said:
US airport that has Customs. But do I need the phone number of each
specific US Customs Office? Surely there must be a central number?

Let me put it this way: If US Customs set up a central number, they'd
make it a 800 number that you couldn't dial from outside the country.


Many forward-looking American organizations/companies actually *do* realize
that we exist, and that Canada-US traffic/trade/whatever is quite extensive,
and they *do* set up 1-800 numbers that work from both countries.

It is peculiar that the Government of the USA would not be one of them.

Before we get all haughty, consider that Canada Custom's CANPASS number (a
1-800-#) does not work from celphones in the US.

It works fine from celphones in Canada, and from landlines in either
country, but not from a Canadian celphone on ROAM in the US.

Now, this is probably a celphone thing rather than a Canada Customs thing,
but still it's damned irritating.

But trying to hunt down US Customs phone numbers is even more
irritating...

In a previous article, Brian Burger said:
Before we get all haughty, consider that Canada Custom's CANPASS number (a
1-800-#) does not work from celphones in the US.

Maybe if you dialed the right number, you'd be able to get through. (It's
1-888-CANPASS, not 1-800-CANPASS).

It works fine from celphones in Canada, and from landlines in either
country, but not from a Canadian celphone on ROAM in the US.

It also works fine from US cellphones in the US and Canada.

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Quando omni flunkus moritati (when all else fails play dead)

It worked fine for me from cellphones, both ROAM as well as network.



Brian Burger wrote in
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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Icebound wrote:


"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
...
In a previous article, "Doug" said:
US airport that has Customs. But do I need the phone number of each
specific US Customs Office? Surely there must be a central number?

Let me put it this way: If US Customs set up a central number,
they'd make it a 800 number that you couldn't dial from outside the
country.


Many forward-looking American organizations/companies actually *do*
realize that we exist, and that Canada-US traffic/trade/whatever is
quite extensive, and they *do* set up 1-800 numbers that work from
both countries.

It is peculiar that the Government of the USA would not be one of
them.

Before we get all haughty, consider that Canada Custom's CANPASS
number (a 1-800-#) does not work from celphones in the US.

It works fine from celphones in Canada, and from landlines in either
country, but not from a Canadian celphone on ROAM in the US.

Now, this is probably a celphone thing rather than a Canada Customs
thing, but still it's damned irritating.

But trying to hunt down US Customs phone numbers is even more
irritating...

On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Andrew Sarangan wrote:


It worked fine for me from cellphones, both ROAM as well as network.

Interesting; I know it's not just my cellphone, so the trouble might be
with whoever runs the cel networks in the northern Washington/Puget Sound
area, and/or one of the Canadian cel companies.

It might also have been fixed; the last time I tried Canpass from a cel
(and it didn't work) was over a year ago. These days I just track down a
landline.

And Paul, I do know it's 1-888-etc, I just posted it as 800 because that's
still the generic term for all the toll-free codes...

Brian.