In the overall scheme of things, a courier company is not a postal system.
The courier companies CAN and DO move mail, however they charge more than 52cents for a letter - I believe Purolator is something along the lines of $10 for a Puroletter, perhaps more.
Yes, Canada Post moves shipped goods - however, they move them by MAIL routes, not by COURIER routes.
With more private citizens becoming involved with shipping items via courier in the past few years, rather than companies, it would be a good idea for the courier companies to take a look at their stats and see if they can work out a closer-to-nominal rate for private citizens moving items between themselves - as opposed to businesses moving shipments between businesses.
I would imagine this would be a slight mega headache to set up and control.
Small businesses will then be saying "but we're just a small company and we only have 3 people working for us and we need a break, can't we ship for private citizen rate with you too?"
Of course, if you're going to be taking on a "cause" to be fighting for, why not take on the Canada Income Tax Act which supposedly was instituted during wartime to help out the country's coffers that were becoming depleted .. and here we are how many decades later still paying it?
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Yes, Canada Post moves shipped goods - however, they move them by MAIL routes, not by COURIER routes.
With more private citizens becoming involved with shipping items via courier in the past few years, rather than companies, it would be a good idea for the courier companies to take a look at their stats and see if they can work out a closer-to-nominal rate for private citizens moving items between themselves - as opposed to businesses moving shipments between businesses.
I would imagine this would be a slight mega headache to set up and control.
Small businesses will then be saying "but we're just a small company and we only have 3 people working for us and we need a break, can't we ship for private citizen rate with you too?"
Of course, if you're going to be taking on a "cause" to be fighting for, why not take on the Canada Income Tax Act which supposedly was instituted during wartime to help out the country's coffers that were becoming depleted .. and here we are how many decades later still paying it?
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Merely explaining business to you, not "defending" - and no idea why you did not get similar charges with Fedex, as we do with our Fedex parcels.
Must sneek in here and give 'er a bump back to the front of the line!
... gosh... darn.. thanks.... so ... verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry.. much..
basically UPS pocked $32.20 for doing nothing
UPS charged you for their services in brokering YOUR parcel into Canada from an international destination.
You would have paid $5 if the seller had sent it USPS as Canada Post has a flat negotiated rate of $5 for brokering parcels into the country.
..by the way... what kind of job do YOU have? do you do your work for nothing? are you in retail and a sales clerk? do you check people out at the cash register for nothing? are you a computer programmer? do you write programs for nothing?
.. I am not a courier company nor a brokerage firm .. however, I DO understand that nothing in this life is FREE! If you want a service (fast courier delivery in this case) you pay a price.
.. I am not a courier company nor a brokerage firm .. however, I DO understand that nothing in this life is FREE! If you want a service (fast courier delivery in this case) you pay a price.
.. I've worked in various industries including manufacturing ... transportation ... construction ... small business ... and you don't go around saying "XYZ RIPPED ME OFF" when you don't educate yourself FIRST about the costs involved between using XYZ or ABC or DEF companies ... UPS, FEDEX, DHL, they are all providing a service ... they get to CHARGE for that service ... just like any other business ... you can go buy a widget at WalMart or you can go buy a widget at Neiman Marcus .... educate yourself as to the PRICES first... and don't WHINE!
plus ... "Canadians read first before buying from the USA" thread has been consistently on the first page of this forum... my "ME" page outlines that couriers will charge brokerage fees ... my Blog (linked from my "ME" page as well as sometimes in the forums in my sig) outlines brokerage charges with couriers ... so its surely not a big secret!
OK we get it; stop already
If we stop.. then the newbies coming along AFTER you won't know..
- it is not just EBAY where you run into this
- try ordering from a retail outlet in the USA and you will oftentimes receive the item via courier, which will in MANY cases result in brokerage charges on top of the taxes due (not all are like this, a few will incorporate the brokerage and taxes into the S&H cost of the item and remit these for you)
- i am far from rich
- YOU are the consumer, YOU need to educate yourself, nobody is going to do it for you, least of all UPS or FEDEX
- try ordering from a retail outlet in the USA and you will oftentimes receive the item via courier, which will in MANY cases result in brokerage charges on top of the taxes due (not all are like this, a few will incorporate the brokerage and taxes into the S&H cost of the item and remit these for you)
- i am far from rich
- YOU are the consumer, YOU need to educate yourself, nobody is going to do it for you, least of all UPS or FEDEX
