At 12:30 AM 3/13/2001 -0500, John R wrote:
> FedEx's "customs fee" is *their* charge for schlepping it through
> U.S./Canada customs (filling out the forms etc.). It's not duty.
>
> Garth
> >>
>UH oh, I am going to dig out the bill they sent and see what I did actually
>pay for, It was above and beyond shipping.
Yeah. Think of it as an "administration fee" that the shippers are charging
you for the privilege of the item going from door to door without spending a
week in some Customs warehouse first. FedEx tends to be the most timely this
way -- the worst is Purolator Courier (a Canadian company that's basically an
extension of Canada Post, and *doesn't* normally schlepp stuff through Customs
for you; I oughta know, 'cause I once had $2,000.00 [CDN] worth of camera
equipment sit in a Canada Customs warehouse in Toronto for six days whilst I
argued with some junior functionary over the phone about how NAFTA worked when
it came to new/used camera equipment. She eventually caved when a superior
nudged her while she was on the phone to me and handed her the duty list. 8^>
).
Garth
P.S.: I suspect they call it a "customs fee" so that you'll think you're
getting stiffed by your respective government.
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