International courier from Sikar to Canada. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Sikar door — Shekhawati-region haveli, town address or merchant office — packed and documented, into the DTDC International network via the Jaipur airport feeder. 7–10 working days door-to-door for express; from ₹1,500 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Sikar door to a Canadian address.
Pickup, Sikar.
Free at 5 kg+. We come to Sikar town, Shekhawati villages — Mandawa, Nawalgarh, Fatehpur — or any home address with tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill.
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration. Done before the trunk run leaves Sikar.
Jaipur feeder + DTDC handover.
~115 km surface to the Jaipur airport feeder and into the DTDC International facility (~+0.5 day vs Udaipur direct); air movement to YYZ Toronto-Pearson, YVR Vancouver or YUL Montreal via Mumbai or Delhi.
Canadian customs.
Clearance at the gateway. CBSA and CFIA flag plant and animal material aggressively — biosecurity is comparable to Australia. Paperwork-clean parcels typically clear within 24–72 hours.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile via Canada Post or the local courier partner. POD on WhatsApp the same day.
Starting rates. Real pricing depends on weight.
Final price depends on actual or volumetric weight (whichever is greater) plus the international fuel surcharge in force on your booking date. GST is extra.
Starting per-kg rates
- Express (7–10 days, door)from ₹1,500 / kg
- Economy (11–15 days, door)from ₹1,100 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from SikarFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say a Shekhawati-haveli care kit (sherwani set with non-precious jewellery box), ~30 × 25 × 15 cm:
- Express, 2 kg × ₹1,500≈ ₹3,000
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹750
- + GST 18%≈ ₹675
- Approx total, express≈ ₹4,950
Indicative only. Fuel surcharge and rate cards change.
What you’ll need at pickup.
Customs paperwork is the most common reason an international parcel stalls. CFIA biosecurity is one of the strictest in the world — we’ll walk you through it before pickup so it doesn’t.
KYC of the sender
One photo ID for the person whose name is on the AWB — Aadhaar, passport or driving licence. We photograph it at pickup; not stored beyond DTDC’s record.
Commercial invoice
For commercial goods, a printed invoice listing items, quantity and value. For gifts (Shekhawati-Marwari family care kits), a written declaration suffices but value still must be stated.
Prescription (medicines)
For tablets going to a student or family member: prescription copy with doctor’s registration. Health Canada rules — sealed strip, no controlled substances, no injectables, no liquids.
What Canada doesn’t let in.
These are real CBSA, CFIA and Health Canada rules — not our caution. CFIA biosecurity is comparable to Australia’s in strictness on plant and animal material. Even cannabis products that are legal in Canada are blocked in international transit. Items shipped against the rules are seized and destroyed.
Don’t even try
- Dairy products — paneer, ghee, khoya-mithai. CFIA seizes even sealed packs.
- Meat products — including dried and sealed.
- Fresh fruit, vegetables, seeds, plant material — CFIA biosecurity.
- Untreated wood and bamboo handicrafts — wooden frames, carved boxes, agarbatti sticks. Treated similarly to Australia.
- Cannabis and CBD products — even legal-in-Canada products are blocked in international courier transit.
- Raw spices in bulk — selectively flagged; small commercially-sealed packs occasionally permitted.
- Aerosols, lithium batteries above 100 Wh, all liquids — universal courier rules.
Allowed with care
- Textiles and handicrafts — block-print fabric, cotton clothing, papier-mâché (no untreated wood). Declare a fair value.
- Books and printed material — straightforward.
- Prescription tablets — sealed strip, prescription attached, sender quantity prescribed only.
- Non-precious jewellery and small electronics — declare make, model, value.
- Sarees, sherwanis, dupattas, papier-mâché — declare value, no embedded organic decoration.
Marwari-NRI family kits, weddings, heritage.
Shekhawati-Marwari NRI-family care kits
Canada-resident Marwari business families with Shekhawati ancestral haveli connections — Toronto, Brampton, Mississauga, Vancouver — maintain active ties with village families. Care kits move both ways: textiles, festival outfits, signed papers, photographs. High-value, document-heavy parcels.
Marwari business documents
Canada-resident Shekhawati-Marwari business families exchange contracts, GST forms, attested letters and signed agreements with ancestral villages. Always express, tracked.
Wedding & festival outfits
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas, jewellery boxes (non-precious). Shipped ahead of weddings — many Punjabi-Canadian-Marwari weddings in Brampton and Surrey draw extended-family parcels from ancestral Sikar/Jhunjhunu villages.
Diwali parcels (non-food)
Diyas, decorations, pooja items. No agarbatti, no food. Recommend express to land before the festival.
Personal documents
PR card replacements, transcripts, signed contracts, certified copies. Always express.
Returning-traveller baggage
For Canadian heritage-tourists who came to see the painted havelis at Mandawa, Nawalgarh, Fatehpur and Dundlod and bought more textiles, miniature paintings and brass items than fit in their suitcase. Picked up from the haveli-hotel, packed (no organic material), shipped before they fly out.
AWB on WhatsApp. Track on dtdc.in. POD when it lands.
The moment the parcel is booked into DTDC International, we send you the AWB number on WhatsApp. Type it into the public tracker at dtdc.in any time. When delivery happens we forward the POD — signed slip or photo — within the hour.
Asked most often.
I'm a Canada-resident Marwari with Shekhawati ancestral connections — how do I send / receive a care parcel cleanly?
This is one of our most regular Sikar lanes. From a Shekhawati village (Mandawa, Nawalgarh, Fatehpur, Bissau, Dundlod) to Canada — send textiles, festival outfits, signed family documents, attested papers, brass diyas and small books. Skip sweets (CFIA dairy block), spices in bulk (selectively flagged), and anything wooden. From Canada back to the haveli, similar discipline — and we co-ordinate with the receiving family by WA. Many of these lanes run between the same two families for decades, especially around weddings and festival seasons.
Why does CFIA flag wooden picture frames and bamboo handicrafts?
It's biosecurity — the same logic that drives Australia's strictness. Untreated wood and bamboo can carry insect larvae, fungi and plant pathogens that aren't native to Canadian forests. CFIA seizes wooden frames, carved boxes, bamboo decor and even agarbatti sticks. Send papier-mâché, brass, textiles and printed-cotton handicrafts instead — they clear without trouble.
Pre-wedding shipment to Brampton — what should be in the parcel and what shouldn't?
Marwari-Canadian and Punjabi-Canadian wedding shipments to the GTA (Brampton, Mississauga, Surrey) typically contain: sherwanis, lehengas, dupattas, juttis, non-precious jewellery boxes, and small Indian decor pieces. What shouldn't go in — any food (sweets, dry fruits, namkeen — CFIA blocks dairy and selectively raw spices), any wooden or bamboo decoration, any leather without certification, fresh flowers or rose petals. We've handled many of these consignments; the wedding-day-safe packing list is well-tested.