Andrei, you're exactly right - UPS gouges and calls it "brokerage". On the
duties issue though, NAFTA did wipe them out until our provincial and
federal governments decided that imports require charging PST and GST, (not)
respectively!
Regards,
Tony.
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Andrei Chichak <newton@chichak.ca> wrote:
>
> On 2009-July-07, at 5:36 AM, Morgan Aldridge wrote:
>
> > Tony,
> >
> > Sorry for flaking out on this. You're in line for early dibs on these
> > machines as you were one of the first responders to my original post.
> > The following is the email I'm going to send to the list (although I
> > already accidentally leaked it) once early responders make their
> > picks.
>
>
> Sending electronics across the border to Canada is not a big deal.
> There are no tariffs to be paid because of NAFTA. If you use USPS it
> is very easy, they should be able to help you fill out the little tag
> for the customs people. Just NEVER NEVER NEVER send anything using
> UPS, they will charge duty where none is due, brokerage for doing
> nothing useful, and collect taxes on the "value" that they added.
>
> A
>
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