UPS has this issue only with the standard service. Any air services
to Canada include all brokerage and shipping, which is why we no
longer use Canada Standard UPS. BTW- USPS will pick up anywhere from
any place in the US and they heavily advertise this fact.
On Dec 19, 2006, at 1:02 PM, Andrei Chichak wrote:
> On 12/19/2006 8:33:00 AM, Mark Ross (markr13@verizon.net) wrote:
>> UPS has its own agents in each country and guarantees
>> time certain delivery along with $100 of insurance at no extra cost.
>> You get what you pay for.
>
> And with UPS you pay for what they think they can get away with.
>
> When importing into Canada, UPS acts as the broker. For this you have
> to pay for the brokerage, a fee for collecting the duties, GST on
> the brokerage, GST on the collection service, applicable duties, and
> GST on the item and the applicable duties.
>
> ...................
> UPS also ships all of their Canadian shipments through a single port
> in Winnipeg. Parcels can sit there for days to weeks in a brokerage
> hold. There is no such thing as overnight even if you paid extra and
> it just has to get there.
>
> Going through USPS and Canada Post, the bill is $5 plus applicable
> duties and GST. The big difference is that Canada Customs and Excise
> (or whatever their handle is this week) does the duty class lookup
> and you get a very fair duty rate. Nothing gets lost, and it comes in
> about the same time as UPS.
>
> One reason that companies use UPS is that they come and pick up,
> whereas you have to take USPS shipments to the post office. This
> makes it less expensive for the shipping company. Also the shipping
> costs are not on the package so it makes it easy for the shipping
> company to take an extra couple of ounces.
>
> Andrei
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