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I can re-mail stuff for you, but even UPS and FedEx Ground don't charge anywhere near that to Canada. It has to be some sort of glitch in the shipping calculator.


Actually, they do. Both of their ground services tack on about another $20-30 at the receiving end (EDIT: "brokerage fees"), before Canadian taxes also are added on (the 15%).

Next-day UPS air is substantially cheaper (and faster) than UPS ground when sending most stuff to Canada. Gotta watch out for that one! Fed-Ex rules, but are very very expensive.

The postal system is still pretty cheap by comparism (EDIT: even though they add $8 "brokerage fee" and nearly always overstate the "value for customs" when calculating the 15% tax, ignoring what the shipper declared as the value).

I'm going to see if anyone else (outside the USA) needs button kits, and combine orders to get some value for the $45.

Pricing the button kit raw parts by themselves reveals that Stu has practically no mark-up on those kits, so maybe the shipping fees partially make up for that (and make it worth offering the services he kindly provides -- I don't mean this in a bad way, either).

Cheers!


Edited by mlord (30/06/2005 15:51)