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.

12:48 PM

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  writergurl, at 4:48 PM  

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 Moviequill, at 8:18 AM  

The package was worth $85.

By  Alex Epstein, at 9:55 AM  

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.

By  sully, at 8:16 PM  

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