Re: OT US Postal Service

Posted by Stick on September 13, 2004 at 06:48:59 from (142.16.22.18):

In Reply to: Re: OT US Postal Service posted by mike j on September 12, 2004 at 22:41:54:

Up here in canada we have the opposite problem. The postal service is great, it's the parcel services that suck! I won't deal with any business anymore that refuses to use the mail. We have no mail delivery here, so we go to the post office in town to pick up our own mail. None of the parcel services here will deliver to a box number or a farm address, instead they deliver it to .....guess where? The POST OFFICE! Where I have a box number! Go figure! The trucks go right by my place, I'm right on a major highway, and my place is clearly marked, and the drivers know me, but they are not allowed to stop. So....I pay them, to.......use the mail! Yeah, right! I've never once had a problem with a mail shipment in years of doing cross-border business, but I've yet to NOT have a problem or slow delivery when a parcel service is involved. My other pet peeve is the brokerage charges. UPS is worst for this. They tack a hefty percentage of the item's value on for customs brokerage, even where the item is tax and duty free! Example, a US$67 part for a Harley turns into CDN$277 when it's shipped via UPS, and took 5 weeks. Same part using the post office was US$67 + US$8 postage and took 3 days.

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