Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] RE: Ebay Canadian Purchases
From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 07:33:53 -0700
References: <011a01c038bd$05874760$02000003@dnai.com>
 
At 10:56 PM 10/17/00 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote:
>UPS is about the most expensive way to ship to Canada.... or vice versa..
>They use a customs broker and collect duty.  The goods old USPS charges no
>fees and I have yet to pay duty through them, even on used German products.
>I have switched my allegiance to the mail for all Canada stuff.
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net

I have found this to be true as well. Also, FedEx seems to always avoid
duty charges. I've had a UPS shipper number for 30 years and it didn't take
long to figure out the UPS is great for local ground shipping. Anything
else gets FedEx or USPS.

Jim
In reply to: Message from "Roland Smith" <roland@dnai.com> (Re: [Leica] Ebay Canadian Purchases)