Yes, UPS to and from Canada is the worst. They will routinely stop a
package at the border, add a $40 fee and then tack that onto my monthly
bill. Well, that is until I closed my account. Post Office adds no
fees either way but have found that high value packages may hit the
Canadian owner with VAT.
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John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
www.zuiko.com | omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Olympus OM Service since 1977
On 9/20/2013 11:35 PM, Paul Braun wrote:
> On 9/20/13 21:22 : , Johnie Stafford wrote:
>> I was going to bring up Customs as well. When I shipped that camera to Vick
>> it spent something like 10 days in customs.
>>
>> BTW, a tip for anybody that doesn't know... If you go to the USPS site and
>> enter the Customs receipt ticket number into their tracking thing it will
>> show you just how much time it spent in Customs.
>>
> My experience shipping to Canada is to avoid UPS at all costs. The
> Postal service may be slow, but they will eventually deliver it. UPS
> will hold it at whatever distribution center they drop it at, and will
> not deliver until you drive there and pay whatever duty or taxes they
> think you owe. Doesn't matter if the distro center is 100 miles from
> your house. That happened twice to me on something I sold and shipped
> to Canada - last three times I used USPS and all went well.
>
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