[Amps] Shipping to Japan

[Carl]

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 at telus.net>
To: "Eddy Swynar" <deswynar at xplornet.ca>
Cc: <amps at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Amps] Shipping to Japan


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> From: "Eddy Swynar" <deswynar at xplornet.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 3:46 AM
> To: "Jim Thomson" <jim.thom at telus.net>
> Cc: <amps at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [Amps] Shipping to Japan
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>>
>> 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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