[Leica] OT: now Canadian brokerage fees

[jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)]

UPS only charges brokerage fees if the parcel is shipped economy. If it 
is shipped expedited or express, brokerage fees are waived/included. 
This means it can often work out cheaper to send it faster.

The best way bar none is good old airmail. The handling fee is a flat 
$5CAN and sometimes they just don't bother with fees at all. I bought a 
Ceriani 35mm racing fork for $800US and it arrived at my door duty and 
GST free.

John Collier

On Jan 5, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Barry Hinderks wrote:

> Both Fedex and UPS (as well as Purolator/DHL etc) do charge the 
> handling
> fee to the recipeients (at least here in Canada). The fee is $35.00 
> CNDN
> and applies whether the value of the item is $1.00 or $1,000.00. 
> Anything
> arriving via USPS does not have the fee attached.