Ive found that using Purolator to ship a heavy item FROM Canada to the US is
the cheapest.
Ive also had items sent to a close to the border address in the US and then
UPS to here.
Other times it goes Canada Post to New Brunswick to a family member of the
wifes who makes a weekly trip to Maine to ship and retrieve stuff he bought
from a UPS facility.
There are always methods to minimize throwing away money to useless
bureaucrats.
In the 60's National shipped equipment to a radio-TV store in Ft. Kent, ME.
And then Pierre came down via farm trails to pick it up and resell.
Carl
KM1H
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
To: "Eddy Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
Cc: <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Shipping to Japan
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Eddy Swynar" <deswynar@xplornet.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:46 AM
> To: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom@telus.net>
> Cc: <amps@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Shipping to Japan
>
>>
>> On 2011-06-21, at 4:49 AM, Jim Thomson wrote:
>>
>>> ## Look at it from UPS's point of veiw. The brokerage is broken down
>>> into 13 x segements... and just cuz ur $35.00 keyer is not worth much
>>> doesn't mean they don't incur expenses shuffling paper work.
>>>
>>> ## having said that.... I notice that anything that arrived via
>>> FEDEX..
>>> didn't cost me anything..go figure.
>>
>> Funny thing is, Jim, that anything I receive here via the US Post Office
>> /
>> Canada Post doesn't cost me anything, either, "shuffled paper work"
>> notwithstanding...
>>
>> Go figure.
>>
>> ~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
> ### Not quite. Canada post charges a paltry $5.00 per BOX....
> regardless of the size / weight of the box.... or it's value. They also
> charge BOTH fed and prov sales tax. [ hst these days]. Other than
> sales tax on the usa dollar exchange and the $5.00 per box fee... there
> is nothing else. The problem is.. a lot of stuff can't be shipped via
> Canada post. Either the items are too big/ too heavy, or too long....or
> the vendo will flat out refuse to stand in a line up at his local post
> office. He would prefer using UPS..since UPS comes to him for his
> pick
> ups.
>
> ## IMO... UPS is a useless bloody outfit. I know one fellow in the
> usa
> who has > $100 K in outstanding claims against them for loss and
> damages. A buddy in San Francisco tells me that UPS will just leave the
> box at the shop owner's door at noon...while he is away and closed for
> lunch for the hr. Folk's walking down the side walk will simply
> pilfer the box.... and the store owner complains 1 week later abt his
> 'missing box' .
>
> ## I have had several items dropped off by UPS [or their fly by night
> independent contractors using beat up vehicles].....and just either left
> at
> my front door......or my back door. They NEVER phone 1st to see if you
> are at home. I can't be at home 24/7...so the usual deal is... I'm
> out
> when they try and deliver. Now if the paper work they leave behind on
> the
> door knob blows away in the 50 mph windstorm....I won't even know they
> tried to deliver. I had one 65 yr old UPS guy show up in his brown
> truck.... and lug's this heavy sola constant V xfmr to the front door
> of
> the condo I was in at the time. I come racing downstairs... and just
> as
> I get to the glass dorr..he drops the damn thing in front of my eyes...all
> 66 lbs of it ! I asked him why he didn't just use a hand truck dolly ?
> I have yet to see a hand truck dolley on an UPS truck. Now how stupid is
> that ? Told him he coulda borrowed mine... or better yet, just getta
> outa my way, and lemmee do it myself. Nothing piss's me off more
> than to see a box travel 2500 miles... then get destroyed in the last
> 5'.... in front of my eyes.
>
> ## usually, once I explain to US vendor's not to ship UPS.....and
> here's
> why [ they want ur 1st born, etc]..... they usually get it.
>
> later........ Jimbo.
>
>
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