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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Someone sent me a package via UPS, and once again they tacked on a $50 customs clearance fee.
Please, if you're sending a package across the US/Canadian border, don't use UPS. Fedex doesn't charge for customs clearance; neither does the post office. UPS is just greedy.
5 Comments:
Fifty dollars? Holy crap, that's a rip-off!
By
Kelly J. Compeau, at 3:17 PM
Wow, talk about a profit center!
By
the package must have been worth $1000 or so right? they wouldn't tack a $50 fee on to a $20 book from Amazon
By
The package was worth $85.
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Hmm. I just googled "UPS customs" and got this page:
http://www.ups.com/content/ca/en/shipping/cost/zones/customs_clearance.html
Perhaps they thought it was $850 instead of $85. The customs for $850 is about fifty-two bucks.
Can you get a refund?
Maybe I didn't read closely enough.
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