Siegfried Meier
Well-known member
Hey guys,
I just had a package sent to me from Mouser via UPS Ground valued at $147.19 from the US to Canada. The total brokerage and import taxes amounted to $66.25!!! Now, I had a package from Mouser sent a month ago that was probably valued at around $125, and the brokerage charges were around $30. There's clearly a different brokerage bracket when you reach over $140 or something, but this is just getting out of control. Even USPS is charging through the roof to ship and bring into the country. What other choices do we have now? I'd call and complain to UPS but anyone I could possibly doesn't give a shit and will certainly give me a bullshit answer anyway. Companies like Mouser will obviously not ship anything without declaring the proper value, so there's nothing us end users can do but take it. I've spent over $1000 in duty and brokerage this year alone, and I've only built a couple of things this year! At this rate, I may as well buy the real thing instead of DIY. At any rate, I don't think UPS can be used at ALL ANYMORE, for any reason when shipping anywhere out of the U.S.A. That company is just sucking money from everyone like crazy.
Any comments welcome.
Thanks,
Sig
I just had a package sent to me from Mouser via UPS Ground valued at $147.19 from the US to Canada. The total brokerage and import taxes amounted to $66.25!!! Now, I had a package from Mouser sent a month ago that was probably valued at around $125, and the brokerage charges were around $30. There's clearly a different brokerage bracket when you reach over $140 or something, but this is just getting out of control. Even USPS is charging through the roof to ship and bring into the country. What other choices do we have now? I'd call and complain to UPS but anyone I could possibly doesn't give a shit and will certainly give me a bullshit answer anyway. Companies like Mouser will obviously not ship anything without declaring the proper value, so there's nothing us end users can do but take it. I've spent over $1000 in duty and brokerage this year alone, and I've only built a couple of things this year! At this rate, I may as well buy the real thing instead of DIY. At any rate, I don't think UPS can be used at ALL ANYMORE, for any reason when shipping anywhere out of the U.S.A. That company is just sucking money from everyone like crazy.
Any comments welcome.
Thanks,
Sig