Hi Volks,
 This is to further carry on the
thread about the exorbitant fees the UPS and Fed-Ex charge.
In April of this year I bought a 15.50 EUR electrical
device from Europe – that turns
into $21.11 Canadian after the conversion.
On the bill that I have received, the customs brokers
paid $1.53 in GST on my behalf.  Now, in this
life, at least in  there is no escaping
death and taxes – so paying $1.53 in GST is something to expect.
So, for the privilege of them paying $1.53 in taxes
they charged me $43.65 in Brokerage fees, of course on those brokerage
fees I got charged $3.06 in GST – more than the tax paid on the
original item.
My package was held up for three weeks in customs as
well, so I guess they did a lot of work on the package during that
time.  Never once did Fed-Ex call me to ask if
I wanted to clear the package myself and now almost 6 months later I get a
bill demanding that I pay their extortion fee.
What do you think I should do?
I supposed I could always go to Wal-Mart and buy $50 in Monopoly
money and pay them with that?  If this went
through the Post Office I would have been charged a flat $5 brokerage fee
and it would have gotten here a lot sooner.
So, to all people shipping goods to  – please
where ever possible use the Post Office!
You’ll make some great friend that way!
If you want to see the invoice they gave me please
see here:

http://www.fastforward.ca/BrokerageInvoice.pdf

Cheers!

David Marshall

http://www.hasenwerk.ca
http://www.fastforward.ca