Re: A2 News and Notes - Super Drive Card

[tturner@ecn.ab.ca ()]

Brian A. Davis (badavis@nbnet.nb.ca) wrote:
: I just received my order from Shreve Systems. The card works great. I am 
: using it with my Applied Engineering HD+ drive.

: NOTE TO CANADIANS: Shreve uses UPS for shipping, so expect to pay UPS's 
: $40.00 charge to bring the package across the border on top of the item, 
: tax, and shipping costs. :-(
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--> I've been `burnt' by those pustulent scabs that feed off of the
    mis-gotten laws of this country - but only once.  Ever since I had
    a 25 (US) dollar poster arrive seeking 40 (CAN) brokerage fees a
    few years back; I've made sure I've never been faced with that
    again.  These scum... er, brokerage firms, get money given to them
    for doing absolutely NOTHING at all.  They weren't hired by me;
    they weren't hired by the Post Office; they weren't hired by the
    US firm sending me what I ordered - but they get to sit there and
    get money handed over to them.  I've no problem paying for a service
    I've asked for - but _NOT_ these bastards.  They don't deserve a
    single cent, for what amounts to highway robbery.

    Any company I do cross-border business with (US/CAN); I inform them,
    PRIOR to any transactions, that any item _MUST_ be sent by 1st Class
    US Mail (I understand that the general feeling in the US is anti-
    post office and pro-courier - but the Mail system in our 2 countries
    works just fine for moi, thank you very much).

    It does take a day or so longer - but I save *BIG TIME* in costs
    and do not have to pay those worthless do-nothing s.o.b's one red
    cent.  All businesses have been fully accommodating to my requests
    to send items via the mail.  It may be the default action to use
    a courier service in the US; but that doesn't mean Canadians have to
    get screwed by this.  It's not the fault of the US companies that
    Canada allows this immoral activity - but Canadians can avoid this
    travesty, simply by insisting items are sent via the Mail.

    I've never lost anything, nor had anything broken, for over a decade
    and that's pretty good odds AFAIC (YMMV).  The items arrive, with a
    covering bill-of-lading with GST and basic import duty and it's low,
    based upon contents value and those slimy parasites called customs
    brokers don't get any money from me.  Works-out quite well . . . 

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