The brokerage fee with the post office is the flat $5.
Randy
On 20/09/2013 11:13 AM, WILTON wrote:
Yep, 'cause that's what they oughta do.
Wilt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Penoff" <[email protected]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 12:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] UPS is fast and cheap to canada
I believe it's due to the USPS being a quasi-governmental agency and
having agreement to work with the destination country's postal service.
Dan
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On Sep 20, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Gary Hurst <[email protected]> wrote:
why is there no brokerage with the post office?
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Randy Bennell
<[email protected]> wrote:
One can do the brokerage thing, but is is a pain and takes time etc
so,
unless one is into doing it on a regular basis, hardly seems worth
it -
which is what the couriers want.
I bought a double roller timing chain set for a small block Ford a few
years back from an online supplier in the USA.
By the time I paid the couier brokerage fees etc, I had paid about
2 o 3
times what I would have paid for it here.
A lesson learned.
Fortunately, I live close enough to the US border to go to ND about
monthly.
I have items shipped to people who act as a middle man near the
border.
They receive and hold packages for the sum of $5 and send me an
email when
things arrive.
I pick them up on my jaunts to ND and bring them accross the border
myself.
Usually no duty but i have to pay the sales taxes at the Canadian
Customs
office.
The reason people here like the post office to deliver is that the
post
office has a flat $5 fee so no huge brokerage costs and often they
seem to
ignore the sales taxes and sometimes the whole thing and just drop
off the
package with no extra charges.
Randy
On 20/09/2013 10:03 AM, Michael Canfield wrote:
Maybe he works for UPS or a broker so he can avoid fees. I have been
shipping parts to Canada for a lot of years and not once has a
customer
chosen UPS over USPS.
Mike
On Sep 20, 2013 9:24 AM, "Gary Hurst" <[email protected]> wrote:
that would be a little psycho of you as he was the one who
insisted on
nothing but UPS delivery, but i wouldn't be surprised
On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Curt Raymond <[email protected]>
wrote:
If I were in Canada and you did that to me I'd never order from you
again.
Poor bastards gonna end up paying some absurd extra "brokerage
fee" to
UPS
to get their stuff. USPS is the ONLY way to ship to Canada.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 23:54:52 -0400
From: Gary Hurst <[email protected]>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: [MBZ] UPS is fast and cheap to canada
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i sent a box of about 20lbs to toronto today on "standard".
shipping
was
only 37 bucks. 55 with insurance. i have to think this is a
mistake,
but
i was told it is expected to be delivered on tuesday
that's a lot cheaper and faster on my end than USPS!
a couple of months ago i overnighted a fairly substantial part
to canada
via UPS and it was only about 80 dollars and arrived about 16 hours
after
it was shipped.
it's impressive although most canadians do not like to be
shipped via
UPS
as it seems to cost them some additional fees or something
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