UPS Sucks!
Well this has been a rough week for shipping costs for me. I mailed a package through Canada Post and they returned it to me saying the address was incomplete. If they had turned it over they would of seen the complete address on the front of the envelope. I guess the woman at the post office was suppose to put the slip on the back of the envelope. Either way the complete address was their if they looked. So I had to re-mail it. This cost me $60 out of my pocket.
Then I ordered some products from the United States. It was shipped through UPS. The total value of the product was $100. UPS charged me a brokerage fee of $56.44 - That is nearly 60% of the value of the product. I had already ordered again from the same company so in a few days I will once again get burned by UPS. Total amount of shipping charges I was burned on is now about $180.00. All of this was unexpected charges. I had looked into the the cost of duties and it was only 5% plus HST. That is a total of 18%. 18% compared to 56% is a big difference.
I will NEVER use UPS again. UPS Sucks big time. If you order from the United States to Canada get them to send it through the US postal system. Chances are you will not have to pay a single penny for duties or HST. If you do it will be way less.
Lesson learned the hard way.
