I have mentioned this before, but after today I feel I should mention this again.
My wife received a package today for some pressure wash stuff I ordered. 5.2lbs, could have fit into book box as it was 2 rain pants, 2 injectors, and one nozzle switcher. I paid 178.xx for the parts, even though is the US this would have shipped for free I of course knew it was not the same for Canada. Paid an extra $50 USD for the UPS Standard shipping and another $70 at the door for UPS rape fee's or brokerage as it is called. $120 for a $178 of supplies that were 5.2lbs, something is a little off. Here is the kicker, last week got some car parts with a declared value at 3X this price, 3X the weight, paid $80 extra for shipping up to Canada (Shipper was around the same location as where the pressure wash parts came from) and only had a $20 brokerage fee. The difference, the second was fedex, the first was UPS.
The moral of this long winded post, to all distributors, if you can't ship with anything other then UPS, then I can't buy anything from you. UPS might seem a little cheaper at the start, they rape us though when it gets to the brokerage part.
My wife received a package today for some pressure wash stuff I ordered. 5.2lbs, could have fit into book box as it was 2 rain pants, 2 injectors, and one nozzle switcher. I paid 178.xx for the parts, even though is the US this would have shipped for free I of course knew it was not the same for Canada. Paid an extra $50 USD for the UPS Standard shipping and another $70 at the door for UPS rape fee's or brokerage as it is called. $120 for a $178 of supplies that were 5.2lbs, something is a little off. Here is the kicker, last week got some car parts with a declared value at 3X this price, 3X the weight, paid $80 extra for shipping up to Canada (Shipper was around the same location as where the pressure wash parts came from) and only had a $20 brokerage fee. The difference, the second was fedex, the first was UPS.
The moral of this long winded post, to all distributors, if you can't ship with anything other then UPS, then I can't buy anything from you. UPS might seem a little cheaper at the start, they rape us though when it gets to the brokerage part.