UPS outrages brokerage charges

[Thomas]

I too have been outraged by the UPS brokerage charges and try to avoid using them whenever I can. I always ask the sender whether it can be shipped with US Mail.

[olredalert]

-------If you Ontario guys live anywhere near Sarnia I am more or less just across the bridge. Send the stuff to me and then come and get it if its small!!!.........Bill S

[PeteLeathersac]

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-------If you Ontario guys live anywhere near Sarnia I am more or less just across the bridge. Send the stuff to me and then come and get it if its small!!!.........Bill S

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Thanks for your offer Bill! . Looks like we'll soon be needing some type of identity card to get through the border?

~ Pete

[John Brown]

After a first time learning experience, I send everything that I ship out-of-country by US Postal Service. Packages under 4 pounds (about 2 kilos) go Air Letter Express. Cheap and really fast. I sent a set of main bearings to London England for $7.95 postage and they got there in 4 days!! Try to match that with any other delivery service. Oh, Canadian Postal only charges about $5.00 brokerage + the percentage of value taxes, according to the people I have shipped to.

[Marina66SS]

Yesterday I had to ship out 4 Viper wheels to a guy in California. I quoted him $80 since that is what I was charged before. I went to a UPS broker in town and the shipping charge was double that. I found out that his "profit" for this was $80. This is rediculous. I have found DHL to be the cheapest of them all. Use DHL whenever possible, they even come to your place and pick up. That may only be for businesses but I know they will.

[P.J.]

UP SHAFT nicely decsribes the ripoff
never never,never again.
PJ.
Peter

[Zedder]

I just had an arguement with them also this morning and vow never to do business with them again. I bought a set of rally wheels off of a guy in MA. He boxed each up and sent them all together in one shipment. They treated each wheel as a separate item and charged me $34.99 per wheel for brokerage!!! Shipping was an extra $100. So my $350 wheels cost me an extra $240!!!! RIP OFF!!!

[Pantera]

This is to all of you, be sure to call Fed-Ex and get a quote also. I have found that they are usually 1/2 or less than what the big brown truck charges. I don't like paying any more than I have to just to ship something and especially small stuff. We have been stuck with UPS for so many years that we forget that they have some commpetion nowdays. And beleive me they want to beat out the brown truck with lower rates. Give them a try and you just might save some money.

Pantera

[BARRY]

U P SHAFT

[CamarosRus]

My comment has NOTHING to do with US/Canadian shipping....I only want to also suggest that www.fedex.com (ground) is significantly less than UPS ground. You do need to ship from a FedEx center or KINKO's(FedEx now ownes), as the mom and pop shipping stores will upcharge from normal rates.