I don't understand, why is it OK to slander UPS or USPS or FedEx but when we
complain about a VW vender everybody gets defensive ? This thread went from
poor packaging to this long thread about shipping companies with no problem
in flaming them? Is it OK because there so big and our beloved VW vendor are
so small?
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
Of Lawrence Johnson
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 5:38 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: UPS shipping

gary2a@TELUSPLANET.NET wrote:

> There is one thing all Canadians should watch with UPS when getting stuff
> from the states and that is the famous UPS brokerage fees.  A $500 US
order
> costs about another $45 US in brokerage fees, plus gst on the value.

In my case UPS also collected the 8% PST for the Ontario Government. They
are
under no legal compulsion to do so - just coercion.

> The post office charges a flat $5 CDN for all shipments.

And the post office does NOT collect the 8% PST.

If I can keep just one Listmember from being ripped off by UPS, I won't feel
so
bad about what they are doing to me. -Larry