Add Fed-Ex or any other courier to that list too - I had a customer return
an item to me and *I* had to pay $80 CAD in brokerage and duty to get the
item back.  US Mail is the only way to go to get an item from the USA into
Canada.

The only way to "escape" this is to go with their expedited service which
has these fees "built in".... I agree - they are a total rip off!

If you need "generic" parts for your Vanagon go to http://www.bowwow.ca or
if you need "specialty" parts for your Vanagon please feel free to visit me
at http://www.fastforward.ca and support Canadian businesses - no offence to
any of the fine American businesses out there.

The stranger part of this is if you send something from Canada to the USA
the US customers DON'T pay these ridicules fees.

David Marshall

Fast Forward Autobahn Sport Tuning
4356 Quesnel Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada  V2J 6Z3
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence Johnson [mailto:LARRY_AVERY.JOHNSON@SYMPATICO.CA]
Sent: January 7, 2001 6:45 AM
To: "1980 VW Westfalia \"Pokey\""; vanagon; Syncro@egroups.com; urabus
Subject: [subaruvanagon] Re: Why I hate UPS (was: Vendors and shipping)

Chris,
I wish you had posted this last week. UPS is in the process of screwing me
out
of over $100 more than it would have cost with the postal service. And if
that
weren't enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth, they rerouted the parcel
to
return to the US (GKY). I tracked the damn thing and notified them of their
mistake. Now it is rerouted off in the direction of Bracebridge (again GKY).

Listen to Chris.. DO NOT USE UPS FOR US-CANADA SHIPMENTS.
-Larry

1980 VW Westfalia \"Pokey\" wrote:

> Being Canadian, buying parts from the US, and being addicted to eBay has
> taught me one thing:
>
> UPS WILL SCREW YOU WITH OBSCENELY HIGH "HANDLING FEES" IF THEY TAKE YOUR
> PACKAGE ACROSS THE BORDER.
>
> This reason is at the top of a very long list of screw ups, missed
> deadlines, etc. as to why I NEVER will use UPS. I had to order a
replacement
> carafe for my Krups coffeemaker and went through the whole order, gave
them
> my address and credit card info, etc. and then I asked about shipping. UPS
> was the only option... I cancelled the order and sourced it locally, I had
> to go out for my coffee for a couple extra weeks but it was worth it not
to
> use those rip off artists.
>
> Thanks (for listening to my rant),
> Chris Gronski
> Toronto, Ontario,
> '80 Westy "Pokey" - SLOPOKEY
> '87 Chevrolet Sprint - Ice Racer
> '91 Pontiac Firefly - Convertible
> www.vanagon.org & .ca
> www.gronski.com, .org, & .ca
> www.nineeleven.org & .ca

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