Black Friday USA falls on Friday, November 27, 2026, the day after American Thanksgiving, with Cyber Monday following on November 30. For a Canadian, finding the deal is the easy part. Getting it home is where it goes sideways: a checkout that rejects a Canadian postal code, an international shipping line that eats the discount, or a driver at the door collecting a brokerage fee nobody mentioned.
We’ve been receiving cross-border parcels in Point Roberts, WA since 2014, with 2,000+ automated lockers and 4.9★ from 700+ reviews. Here’s how to shop US Black Friday and Cyber Monday from Canada, whether you live twenty minutes from the border or two thousand kilometres.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2026: The Dates
- Thursday, November 26: US Thanksgiving.
- Friday, November 27: Black Friday.
- Monday, November 30: Cyber Monday.
Many US retailers stretch their sales across the whole week, so the useful plan is less about one day and more about where those orders will land.
Three Snags Canadians Hit on US Deals
1. The store won’t ship to Canada. US-only fulfillment is common: small Shopify brands, outlet and flash-sale sites, and US-exclusive Amazon.com listings often reject a Canadian address outright. (The kinds of US stores that won’t ship to Canada.)
2. The store ships north, but the discount doesn’t. International shipping is priced separately, and it’s rarely free even when US shipping is.
3. Brokerage, once per box. When a courier clears your parcel through customs, it charges a brokerage fee for the paperwork, often ~$15–50 CAD on top of tax, and it charges per shipment. Black Friday is the weekend people place four orders with four stores, which can mean four fees. (What brokerage is, and five ways to avoid it.)
Then there’s the math every headline discount hides. US prices are in US dollars, and your bank typically adds ~2–3% to convert USD to CAD. Many US stores add sales tax at checkout based on the ship-to address, and Canadian sales tax can apply when the goods come home. Compare the landed cost in Canadian dollars, not the percentage off.
If You’re in the Lower Mainland: Ship to Point Roberts and Pick Up
If you live in Delta, Richmond, Vancouver or nearby, this route clears all three snags. Give US stores your address, 145 Tyee Dr, PMB (your Customer ID), Point Roberts, WA 98281, and every order ships domestically, by any carrier: UPS, FedEx, USPS, DHL, Amazon. We log each parcel as it arrives, email you, and put it in a locker you open 24/7 with a 6-digit PIN.
What makes it work over a sale week:
- One trip, not four. The receiving fee, $4.25 per package or letter received, includes the first 14 days of storage, so orders that trickle in from Black Friday through Cyber Monday can wait for a single crossing.
- The holiday doesn’t stop pickup. Our staffed counter closes for US Thanksgiving on November 26, but the lockers stay open 24/7/365. Cross early in the morning or late in the evening, whenever the line is short.
- Big-ticket items fit too. Anything too large for a locker, like a big TV box or a set of tires, goes to our shelf for attended pickup during counter hours (Mon–Fri 10:00–16:30, Sat 10:00–15:00).
- Try clothes on before you cross. Our on-site fitting room lets you keep what fits. Sending the rest back to a US merchant is free; you pay only the postage.
- A calmer crossing. Point Roberts is reached via the Tsawwassen / Boundary Bay crossing, a small, low-traffic crossing that’s generally quieter than the Peace Arch and Pacific Highway lineups. It’s about 17 minutes’ drive from Ladner, 30 from Richmond and 40 from Vancouver, before any border wait. (Point Roberts vs Blaine, city by city.)
At the booth, declare everything and keep your receipts handy. You pay GST/PST, plus any duty depending on where the goods were made, directly to CBSA. There’s no brokerage line, because nobody cleared the parcel for you. Personal exemptions apply once you’ve been away long enough: CAD $200 after 24 hours, CAD $800 after 48 hours. A same-day pickup run has no exemption, so plan to pay the tax on what you bring back. (How cross-border pickup works.)
Set it up before the sales start. Your US address is free to keep, with no monthly fee and $0 in the months nothing arrives, so register now and it’s ready at checkout on November 27. Get your free US address.
If You’re Further Away: Have It Forwarded
Not near the border? The same address works from anywhere in Canada, or anywhere in the world. Your orders arrive in Point Roberts, and you decide when to ship them on. For Canada, forwarding has two lanes that behave differently at customs:
- USPS: about $22–26 for a typical 1–2 lb parcel to Canada, in roughly 1–4 weeks. No brokerage; any duties are collected at your door.
- UPS / FedEx: from ~$32 to Canada, brokerage bundled in, in about 2–4 days.
Shipping worldwide beyond Canada is quoted live in the portal for your exact parcel and destination — see the full rate details for how it’s priced.
Every forward is quoted live for your exact parcel and destination before you approve it. Two sale-week tips. First, let the week’s orders gather and have them combined into one box — consolidation is from $7.50 and includes boxes, tape, and packing materials — so you pay for one shipment instead of several. Second, if anything is a Christmas gift, remember the USPS lane can take up to four weeks: ship early or choose the courier lane. See how forwarding works, step by step.
Boxing Day USA: What to Expect
Boxing Day isn’t a holiday in the United States. American stores run after-Christmas and year-end sales instead, so “Boxing Day USA” deals usually look like a continuation of holiday clearance from December 26 on. The playbook above works the same way. It’s also return season: if a gift ordered to your US address doesn’t fit, sending it back to the merchant is free, and you pay only the postage. One timing note: our counter is closed December 25 and 26, 2026, while the lockers stay open 24/7.
Frequently Asked Questions
When is Black Friday in the USA in 2026? Friday, November 27, 2026, the day after US Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26). Cyber Monday is Monday, November 30.
Is Black Friday in the USA better than in Canada? Sometimes. Canadian retailers run Black Friday sales too, so compare the landed price in Canadian dollars (exchange, US sales tax, shipping and Canadian tax at the border) rather than the headline discount. The clearest US wins are items not sold in Canada at all, and stores that won’t ship here.
Do I pay duty on US Black Friday purchases? You declare everything when you bring it home. Sales tax applies beyond your personal exemption, and duty depends on the item’s country of origin, not where you bought it. Check CBSA’s current guidance before a big purchase.
Do I need to live near the border to use a US address? No. Pickup suits the Lower Mainland; from anywhere else, have your orders forwarded to Canada or anywhere in the world.
The Bottom Line
The best US deal is the one that arrives without a surprise attached. A US address turns a “won’t ship to Canada” checkout into a domestic order, lets a sale week’s parcels wait for one trip, and keeps the brokerage line off your bill.
Get your free US address, with no monthly fee and $0 in the months nothing arrives, and have it ready before November 27.