Kentoss said:
GWEndlessDuel said:
Seriously some of you people are ridiculous. Patience is a virtue. Really, it is. I promise.
If this was a shot at me in any way, please note that I'm not being impatient, I'm fretting over shipping companies being generally incompitent when it comes to handling my packages. In the past, Canada Post has lost my package, withheld my package, and dumped my package in a decorative barrel on my lawn. I went with UPS in good faith that they wouldn't do any of what Canada post does, but after doing so I've been hearing about customs charges they like to add on, as well as packages going in the wrong direction they need to go in, so I'm a little nervous about this order, and whether or not this is happening to other people.
UPS is 1000x worse than Canada Post (which I've never had a problem with), or any other national mail service. Couriers are awful... for international shipments, in particular. I don't know what UPS method shoptemp uses, but for any UPS Ground shipment going between the US and Canada, what they add on aren't "customs fees"... they're just other nonsense fees that are criminally high. Although they can be avoided if you clear a package through customs yourself, most people don't know they can do that so they just end up paying UPS. UPS once tried to charge me upwards of $70 on a package with a marked value of $120... only about $8 or $9 of that was actually customs for the government. The rest was for the (incompetent) brokerage agents that UPS employess to clear a package through customs. This isn't needed when something is sent with national mail services like USPS or Canada Post, because they've got agreements with eachother to handle eachother's mail.
I have no idea about UPS shipments coming out of Hong Kong, but even if they aren't subject to the same fees (I don't see how a ground shipping method can be used for China to Canada or the US, etc.), I still refuse to deal with UPS at all, due to their insane fees for other shipments.
