Mailing Carton of Cigarettes and bottle of Alcohol?

I'm pretty sure you can bring back 2 liters of whiskey and more than one carton of cigarettes (I don't smoke but the duty free shops at the airport will give you the number). That said unless your flight back from Europe is a direct one to your final "flight" destination you cannot repeat cannot carry on liquids like whiskey on a connecting flight - bought in the duty free store or not. In London in May I noticed some airlines would let you take duty free liquids on a connecting flight if it was in a specially sealed bag(s). Believe this is a new twist. Anybody got an update out there?

You can bring back 1 carton of cigarettes and 1 litre of booze. Check with Gov't of Canada website if you doubt. Mailing a bottle of scotch and a carton of cigs will cost you a fortune AND they may never arrive ! Of course if Dad will pay the postage then who cares? Will he settle for the cigarettes & scotch sold on the airplane?

Last year we brought back several bottles of wine wrapped in plastic and in our clothes. Of course we checked that luggage--it was not carry-on luggage. It would cost a lot to ship and pay duty on it. If your dad likes pipes, we buy those in Europe along with the filters and pipe tobacco. Have a great trip!

Here are the personal exemptions for Canadians returning home: http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/publications/pub/bsf5056-eng.html#P021

Remember that the longer you are gone for the bigger the exemptions. You should be fine with 2 bottles if you are gone for a few weeks.

Pete

If you bring it back on a connecting flight in checked luggage, good luck on it still being in your luggage when you arrive at your final destination. We had a very nice bottle of cognac stolen between flights at O'Hare in Chicago.

I'm with your dad all the way.

The way it works regarding duty free is like this. When you exit Canada you can purchase one litre of the good ol' electric soup and one carton of 200 cigarettes. Technically you are supposed to consume these while out of the country. On your return you can purchase the same.

Frankly I don't drink the booze or smoke the ciggies I purchase when I exit my country, so I actually return home with two litres of 'Aqua Tumbleover' and 400 of Philip Morris' finest.

No customs officer has ever bothered about my failure to understand the strict letter of the law ( maybe they take one look at me and think that, with the amount I smoke and drink, my ability to understand simple concepts of reason and logic has long been jettisoned ).

I have also been known to purchase a few bottles of local rotgut and stash them in my checked luggage. This is illegal, if the total exceeds the permitted quantity ( in my case it does ) and I will undoubtedly be flogged in public by the Queen's High Court Bench of the Law if my secret ever gets out. By the way, if a bottle breaks in your suitcase no travel insurance will pay up for ruined clothes.

The German duty free at Frankfurt has one of the best ranges of Scotch Whisky of any airport I've ever seen.

If you can only buy one of each, treat your dad to a bottle of The Glenlivet and a carton of Peter Styvesant.

If we're damn fool enough to drink and smoke - it might as well be the best.

Take the answers from us in the states with a grain of salt, your Canadian rules will apply. Do consider the difference between what can be brought back "duty-free" vs what you would need to pay duty on. As an example, in the US, we have a limit of two liters of alcohol duty free, but actually have no limit that can be brought back, as long as we declare and are prepared to pay duty. In reality, very few people have to pay duty. Do a search, I am sure the Canadian Customs office has a website similar to the US Customs website "Know before you go"