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In article <1992Jul4.143335.14728@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>, jwhite@mta.ca (Jay White) writes:
> >In article <1992Jun29.041429.20085@mks.com> andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) writes:
> >>I got a call last Friday from Telebit saying that Profit Courier would
> >>be contacting me the week of July 6 to arrange the modem swap.  Looks
> >>like they finally found someone in Canada to co-ordinate the upgrade.
> 
>    I ordered a Worldblazer thru the LP program around the end of April.
> About a month later, I called Telebit & was told that the modem wouldn't
> be shipping until mid-June.  Less than a week later, I received a call
> from the courier (Emery Worldwide) notifying me that the shipment had 
> arrived.  The shipping charges were $143 Cdn for a package that weighed
> less than 9 lbs.  Telebit had shipped the modem in a box large enough
> to hold two modems; EW charged me for "dimensional weight" (i.e. 21 lbs)
> on the grounds that the cubic volume of the package took up that much
> space on the plane.
>    I had requested Emery Worldwide rather than FedEx because I had good
> luck with them in the past.  Unfortunately, UPS doesn't ship ground to
> this part of Canada.  Obviously, based on these outrageous shipping charges
> (which so far total more than one third the cost of the Worldblazer), I
> may as well be in Bangladesh!
> 
> -Jay

That's strange, I received mty T3000 which was under the LP program,
but I didn't specify a preferred method of shipment. I eventually
arrived, right to the door where I had to make out a C.O.D. check
for U.P.S. (I'm in Nova Scotia).

I wasn't delivered by UPS themselves, but my Midland Courier on their
behalf.  The customs etc. was handled by UPS in Toronto Canada.
It was also sent in the large box designed for shipping of 2 modems,
but I only paid 67.96 (CND), with no other bills/charges from other
companies.  So far, the best way I've received something to date.
I'm usually surprised by another invoice from some other company
somewhere.


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