[WWI] Rant

[Collins, Graham]

And to add insult to injury, you will often get dinged Provincial Sales
Tax as well!

I have never been to Crapastan but I think some of mail has ;)


Cheers, Graham in Embrun near Ottawa Canada

-----Original Message-----
From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
Behalf Of Tom Morgan
Sent: June 29, 2006 19:47
To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
Subject: Re: [WWI] Rant

Warren,

I have got to agree with you - damn Canada Post to hell & back, with a
stop 
over in Crapastan.  Insane postage rates (at least for packages).  And
for 
us Canucks receiving parcels from the US, not only do we pay US postage,
but 
the damn Canadian "customs" charges us a 7% GST tax and an additional $5
for 
the honour of handling our packages - and often damaging the contents. 
Bastards.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "wed317" <wed317 at mchsi.com>
To: "'World War I Modeling Mailing List'" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 4:58 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Rant (was RE: A few items for sale in the US)


>
> "Yay  gotta love sellers who don't have that dreaded "will sell to US 
> only"
> I await the day I have something that one of them desperately want,
but I
> can say .. sorry, I don't sell to those who only sell in USA."
>
> Bob,
>    I live in a small town whose post office gets very little call to
ship
> packages internationally, and getting RELIABLE shipping information
out of
> them is a bureaucratic mess at times.  I am sure the same applies with

> other
> USPS customers.  Some packages can be insured, some cannot, depends on
the
> shipping method used by USPS. I do not want to tell one of my
customers 
> that
> he can have a package insured, only to find out he can't.  I have had
such
> difficulty in dealing with some foreign buyers, wanting to know if
they 
> can
> have it this way, or that way, or this and that way, that the cost in
fuel
> running back and forth to the post office exceeds the price of the
kit.  I
> have thought that the next items I sell on ebay will be "US only" just
to
> avoid all of the hassles of dealing with this difficulty.  It has
nothing 
> to
> do with some self-centered, nationalistic attitude.  (and before ya'll

> say,
> "use the USPS website", not all USPS locations offer all the services 
> listed
> on the website.)
>   As a matter of fact, the last few times I have bought something from
> Canada, I have been reamed so badly for postage that I have sworn off
from
> buying anything from Canada again.  It would have been cheaper to buy
from
> Europe or Asia than next door.
>
> Warren
>
>
>
>
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