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Subject: Re: [motm] Canada/shipping/duties (slightly OT).

From: "J.D. McEachin" <jdm@...>
Date: 2005-05-17

At 07:56 AM 5/17/2005 -0400, Greg Amann wrote:

>DO NOT USE UPS TO SHIP TO CANADA!!!!!!!

Don't use FedEx either. Last time I checked, they were charging a flat US$50 brokerage fee on top of the GST & PST. One time they hit us w/ a $200 customs charge, by assessing $150 in GST & PST on a $199 item. This was because they taxed the insured value, which covered a pcb which had originated in Canada, was shipped to the US for repair/modification, and was thus exempt from the tax. Idiots.

We've been shipping Europa upgrades to Canada via USPS for a few years w/ no problems.

JDM