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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UPS Canada Problems
Message-ID: <759@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 10 Sep 89 01:49:48 GMT
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In <7002@warpdrive.UUCP>, stewartw@warpdrive.UUCP (Stewart Winter) writes:
>In article <726@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>In <234@van-bc.UUCP>, Ernie Gorrie <Ernie@egami.wimsey.bc.ca> writes:
>>Similarly, sending something to the US via UPS is an expensive proposition,
>>since they want to charge you $35 or so 'brokerage fees', whether your parcel
>>requires it or not. 
>   
>   My understanding is that UPS does not WANT to charge the brokerage fee, but
>is REQUIRED BY LAW to charge that fee.  This is what I was told by Canada
>Customs the one and only time I used UPS for a software purchase from the US.
>Only the post office is exempt from charging brokerage fees (can you say
>unfair advantage).

We are talking about two different things here. I was (in thisparticular
quotes), talking about sending thigs TO the US. When you are receiving
something from the US, you can pick it up and clear it through customs
yourself. I know this for a fact, because I have done it in every case of
receiving something through UPS or FedEx. On stuff going TO the US, the
brokerage is for the purpose of satisfying US customs, and has nothing to do
with Canadian customs.

-larry

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