UPS outrages brokerage charges

[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!!!

[BillD]

Fedex ground can often be a better deal than UPS. I have set up my own account with Fedex online. I can print my own shipping labels and document my own shipments without having to pay the local UPS store their inflated rates for doing this. Drop off of packages are also very easy as all the work is done. You don't have to wait around for someone to print labels and then pay.

[Hotrodpaul]

I had issues with UPS doing online shipping. A price was given at the time the shipping label printed. When my bill came in the mail EVERY TWO WEEKS there was always an extra charge added to the shipment, sometimes as much as 40-50% of the shipping total. I stopped that right away and started shipping with other sources.

Paul