Ditto for UPS in Canada - excessive brokerage charges. FedEx includes
theirs in the delivery rate. The Post Office sometimes charges me 5$ +
tax, but usually nothing & no tax.
Tom
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Date sent: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:45:04 +0100
From: Richard Ross <rhdesign@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Olaf wrote:
>
> >My worst experience was with the one and only time I used UPS. At first it
> >seemed the parcel arrived without any customs duties, but then I received a
> >bill for $65 of charges.
>
> I received a package from the US by UPS, and they wanted to charge me 30
> UKP for "service charges" in addition to import duty (which in this case
> was zero). There was no prior warning of this so I suggested what they
> could do with the idea, in the nicest possible way, and they relented. I'd
> recommend regualr air mail as well. It might take a little longer but it's
> potentially a *lot* cheaper.
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