Date:         Sat, 16 Oct 2010 13:15:32 -0400
Reply-To:     The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
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From:         The Bus Depot <vanagon@BUSDEPOT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Shipping to Alaska/ Outside of the Continental U.S.
Comments: cc: david@hasenwerk.ca
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> Hey Ron,
>
> With Fed-Ex and shipping to places like Canada, have they a delivery
> service that includes brokerage fees?  This is often the bitter pill that
> people have to swallow with UPS / Fed-Ex.  $35 for brokerage fees is
> extreme considering the post office charges $5 and the last six months
> it seems they seldom charge anything.  Usually when I have a vendor
> that will not ship with USPS I say screw it and not use them.
>
> Cheers and bravo for not being afraid of the Post Office!!!


FedEx's cheapest service, like UPS's, excludes include brokerage fees (which
like UPS's can be exhorbitant). However their faster services include the
brokerage fees. I have a very large contractual discount with Fedex on their
faster services that include brokerage. With my discount, I can sometimes
get a package to a Canadian customer in about 2 days for the same price or
slightly more than USPS. Once or twice I've even seen it come out cheaper.
In other cases USPS is cheaper, because FedEx tacks on a surcharge to some
Canadian postal codes. When a Canadian customer places an order, we email
them with both their mail and FedEx options and let them decide.

- Ron Salmon
  The Bus Depot, Inc.
  www.busdepot.com
  (215)  234-VWVW

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