How much does it cost to courier from Canada to Mexico?

The cost to courier from Canada to Mexico can vary widely based on the parcel’s size, delivery time, which courier is selected, and the season. Beyond those primary cost inputs, there is a range of secondary costs – fuel surcharge, additional handling, transportation of prohibited goods, to mention a few. Some of these may be evaded and others are simply part of the cost of shipping. Nevertheless, COVID-19, inflation, and economic uncertainty have played a role in increasing everyone’s shipping costs in the last few years whether to Mexico, within Canada, or anywhere internationally. But there is a Canadian shipping broker – Secureship – whose preferential rates with Purolator, UPS, and FedEx enable you to save at least half of the regular shipping charge. And in today’s business environment, who can say no to a deal like that?

Table of Contents

• Primary Shipping Costs
• Secondary Shipping Costs
• Saving with Secureship
• Conclusions

Primary Shipping Costs

The four main determinants of a parcel’s shipping cost are its size, delivery time, the courier hired, and the season it travels. Fortunately, there are ways to mitigate those costs as described below.

Parcel size

Heavier parcels cost more to ship, obviously; however, a larger parcel with the same weight could be more expensive to ship. And that’s due to billable weight.

Without going into the details, which are explained by Secureship in its learning centre, one way to think about this is to compare shipping one kilogram of styrofoam with one kilogram of gold. Because the styrofoam occupies much more volume than the gold, its shipping rate would be more than for the gold.

Delivery time

Perhaps not surprisingly, the quicker a shipment is delivered, the more it will cost. So, sending a parcel by surface, i.e. sea freight, reduces the cost the most, but the consequence is time – much longer deliveries.

So, most people choose air transport for shorter delivery times (two to nine business days). But even picking a 5-day delivery over a 2-day will substantially reduce what you will pay.

Courier

A dozen or so couriers operate out of Canada, and inherently some charge more for essentially the same service as another company. Secureship can find which courier is the most economical for your shipping needs when shipping from Canada to Mexico.

Read on further below for more details about this Canadian broker.

Season

Shipping’s busy season predictably encompasses Christmas, but be advised volumes, and therefore costs, start increasing in early November and go into January of the new year. So, one way to keep shipping costs down is to plan ahead and ship before or after this time frame.

Secondary Shipping Costs

There are a handful of secondary shipping costs that may be added to your bill, some of which you can control.

Fuel surcharge

All carriers include a fuel surcharge in the total shipping cost (the amount of which companies make available when you pay). This charge fluctuates with world oil prices, but it is a fixed percentage of the shipping rate.

Additional handling

Additional handling charges are applied when the shipping container is something other than a cardboard box. So, unless the goods absolutely require transportation in a plastic, steel, or wood container, this fee can be avoided.

Prohibited goods

Despite goods being prohibited, carriers will transport them for a fee. For instance in 2025, UPS will charge $300 CAD/package of prohibited goods.

Saving with Secureship

Suppose you needed a 6.6 kg parcel delivered from Toronto’s Pearson Airport to Mexico City’s equivalent (MEX). By using Secureship’s online estimator, the following six options might appear.

Service	Estimated Delivery Time	Courier’s Rate	Secureship’s Rate
FedEx International First	2 business days	$735 CAD	Not available
FedEx International Priority	2 business days (evening)	$542 CAD	$190 CAD
FedEx International Economy	4 business days	$489 CAD	$166 CAD
UPS Express	2 business days	$561 CAD	$253 CAD
UPS Saver	2 business days (evening)	$545 CAD	$245 CAD
UPS Expedited	3 business days	$502 CAD	$226 CAD

It is very clear that Secureship can provide you incredible monetary savings; and using Secureship also saves you time and offers easily available shipping information on its website.

These data also confirm what was previously noted, some carriers are inexplicably more expensive than others.

Time

Secureship’s online estimator is intuitive and creates results in less than a minute. And once you have selected a suitable shipping option, the system smoothly guides you through completing the required paperwork and helps you arrange the parcel’s pick-up from your office or home.

Information

During its 17-plus years of shipping experience, the folks at Secureship have created scores of articles on various topics.

Starting with Secureship’s collection of blogs that answer dozens of your shipping questions, you will also find sections devoted to:

• Country-specific Shipping Guides (more than 140)
• Learning Centre (16 articles that teach you everything about shipping)
• Help Centre (Guru bot with answers to 5,000 questions)

Conclusion

Many factors determine the cost to courier from Canada to Mexico, but some of the primary ones include a parcel’s size, delivery time, which courier you pick, and the time of year.

There are also secondary costs to shipping: fuel surcharges, additional handling, and prohibited goods surcharge. And over the last few years shipping charges, like everything, have increased a lot, but fortunately for Canadian shippers, Secureship can help you find more economical options – often 50% or more from a courier’s retail price. What person or business can afford not to consult us when shipping from Canada to Mexico, or anywhere at home or elsewhere?