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Foreign shipping brokerage costs and UPS - (Was: Re: Slik Stik - Any Word)

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Zakk:

What, you mean they are starting to believe that we're not all just making it up?


No response from UPS yet, however 2 minutes my phone rang with the number 0-000-000-0000.  I almost thought that UPS had sent the mob out to get me and they were giving me a courtesy call.

(It was some kind of automated machine on the line so I hung up).

Zakk:

Oh joy!  A fellow on here sent a set of stencils across the border, and against my suggestion, sent it via UPS.   Not only did they mark the package "1st delivery" but they also checked the "final attempt" (which from their phone recording means I'm supposed to go pick the damn thing up!).  OH!!!!  And look at this!!!! a $50 brokerage fee is owing, on TOP of the shipping amount! 

UPS dude, your company is absolutely, 100% crooked.  I'm refusing it, but the sender can likely re-sell it, and recoup at least the amount they charged him to ship it.   I'm out a very good chunk of change however, so you AND your company can go ---fudgesicle--- youselves.  <--Manually censored by saint because Zakk's vocabulary has overwhelmed the autocensor-->

protokatie:

Ok.. I may be a bit nieve here.. But..

WTF! I have NEVER heard of broker fees before when it comes to sending anything! I have sent things VIA UPS and USPS, and never dealt with this... I have gotten packages from the UK and Norway, as well as a few from Vanuatu, and never dealt with this.

This is something new to me, so would someone post a basic guide to how this works? (And without it being biased, I just want to know how it works)

patrickl:

I recently received a similar bill for $12 from Fedex. I didn't have to pay taxes or anything. They carged me for "expenses EU non VAT".

Got it for a $81 shipment I received a few weeks earlier (which included $20 shipping already).



Avrus:

I think the easiest way is just advise the seller you won't deal with UPS.  If they won't ship via another method you'll take your business elsewhere.

I've had two vendors I dealt with switch over to USPS.

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