Thread: UPS

Phrank

Sorry, I don't understand. It came UPS so there must have been a brokers fee part of which was duty payable on the declared value of the work done. I am having a hard time believing that the duty payable on honing for two razors was $60.00. Who won't take cash UPS or CBSA? As far as I know CBSA will take payment in cash Frequently Asked Questions.

I believe UPS as a broker accesses the duty payable and collects it for remittance to CBSA along with provincial and federal sales taxes. To add injury to insult I believe they charge you fed/prov or HST for that service. Add all that up plus the value of the goods and their fee is a percentage of that total. All combined it is pretty staggering.

Don't mean to wind you up just want to clear in my mind who did what, sorry.

Bob

My slip shows GST $5.93, tariff $10 then it jumps straight to a total of $55.94. I presume that they took a $40 fee for having declared the GST and Tariff on my behalf. That is a crazy margin on top of the $30 for transport. They grossed 30% more on the brokerage fees than on the freight. Those guys are insane. Are they honestly thinking they are ever getting repeat business. It sounds like Phrank got billed around the same for not much either.

Originally Posted by RezDog

My slip shows GST $5.93, tariff $10 then it jumps straight to a total of $55.94. I presume that they took a $40 fee for having declared the GST and Tariff on my behalf. That is a crazy margin on top of the $30 for transport. They grossed 30% more on the brokerage fees than on the freight. Those guys are insane. Are they honestly thinking they are ever getting repeat business. It sounds like Phrank got billed around the same for not much either.

Thanks, that was what I was thinking. Seems UPS has twerked somebody's feathers over brokers fees United Parcel Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Here is how they operate UPS: Rates for Customs Clearance into Canada . Sorry to hear you guys got stung the same way I did but it has been going on since forever it seems.

Everyone bitches about the postal services but I have had items sent from the US via USPS for around $12.00 to $16.00 IIRC that I could track on the US side up to it going to CBSA and then from release at CBSA to receiving it at home. Any duties and taxes that were payable by a call to CBSA and the use of a credit card.

Bob