{"id":268,"date":"2005-12-14T19:17:52","date_gmt":"2005-12-15T07:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2005-12-14T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2005-12-15T07:17:52","slug":"ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horace.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/14\/ups\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to black list any sellers using UPS to ship their items.  I ordered something from eBay, the item itself is not very expensive, but the seller insuranced the item against my instrution and I end up have to pay a small duty fee to the custom, which it&#8217;s fair.  It&#8217;s just 7% GST, and cost me $2 anyways.  Then UPS charge the ridicously high handling fee, $17, just for collecting $2 from me.  What a rip off.  Sometimes I wonder, what did had our government done in the NAFTA treaty.  Shouldn&#8217;t  we had already scrape all the traiff between Canada and US?  This makes me start thinking about the WTO meeting happening in HK.  In an ideal world and classical economy theory I firmly believed in, all traiff are evil.  The WTO suppose to reduce the cost of trade between countries, but it end up hijacked by beneficial groups setting quotas to protect their own interest.  I am sure the Canada post is the one most object free cross boarder shipping between Canada and US most.  When can we Canadian enjoy the same cheap deals most US consumers enjoy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to black list any sellers using UPS to ship their items. I ordered something from eBay, the item itself is not very expensive, but the seller insuranced the item against my instrution and I end up have to pay a small duty fee to the custom, which it&#8217;s fair. 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