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In article <dreilley.770.00EE513B@pinc.com>,
David Reilley <dreilley@pinc.com> wrote:
>In article <46m6qq$nh6@fountain.mindlink.net> George Slade <George_Slade@Mindlink.bc.ca> writes:
>
>>brokerage.  It seems that whenever UPS is used for delivery from 
>>the US the GST is screwed up.  It happened again today, I received 
>
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>>Now my question.  Am I the only one who gets such lousy service 
>
>No.

No.

>>from UPS or are they just the most stupid people in the world.  
>
>Just about.

Just about.

>>George Slade
>
>
>I fired these guys years ago for exactly this reason.  Never a problem with 
>Fedex, almost always a problem with UPS.  I guess it's just UPS' way of 
>telling their customers to fuck off.  If it is, I got their message loud 
>and clear.

Ditto on that as well. UPS wanted me to pay them something like:

	$15 brokerage
	$3 collect the GST fee
	$3 COD fee
	$2.?? actual GST

on a $35US manual a few years back. Since then I simply tell the sender to
use ABUPS (Anybody But UPS), with a preference for FedEx. 

I will note however that I have had two deliveries by UPS in the last year
where the shipper used (I think) UPS Red which is the equivlant of
Overnight. It is supposed to have brokerage costs built in.

The big problem seems to be with regular el cheapo UPS. I.e. the shipper
paid $5 instead of $15 and then you get zonked for about $20 at this end
*after* waiting two weeks to get it at that.

So it's conceivable that ABUPS could actually be modified to Anything but
UPS ground (or whatever they call their cheapo service). 

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