[AT] Shipping Small Engines?

Thu Apr 26 16:36:06 PDT 2007

We have a friend in Canada who we sent a Christmas gift to every year.  A 
couple of years ago she sent us a letter explaining how we hadn't shipped it 
properly and that it cost her more in customs fees than we paid for the 
gift.  She explained how we had to ship it to avoid the customs and delivery 
fees which she shouldn't have needed to pay on a gift.  We had sent the gift 
by US Mail.  That apparently was a no-no.  When the gift reached the border 
she had the choice of picking it up herself or paying some delivery company 
to handle the customs and delivery for her.

I'm not sure of the exact details now but it was a pain in the butt.
Every year we have to pull out her letter and figure it out again.  I just 
wish she would stop sending us stuff.  That way we could stop sending her 
stuff.  The solution apparently is to ship it UPS.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean VP" <deanvp at att.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Shipping Small Engines?

I have shipped quite a bit of stuff to Canada w/o much trouble but with one
significant exception.  That was an ~ $800 shipment that weighed over
200lbs. I contracted with and paid up front for Fed Ex Ground (Note
different than Fed Ex air) to transport and be my broker into Canada. I
thought all was cool until a month or two later I received a bill from Fed
Ex Ground for in Excess of $100 for brokerage fees and Canadian GST that the
buyer was supposed to pay.  They apprently failed to collect these fees from
the Buyer and the fine print in the Fed EX Ground shipping documents states
that if the receiver doesn't pay the fees then the shipper is required to
pay.  Fed Ex didn't fulfill their responsibility as a Broker and now wants
me to pay for what they didn't do and pay the Canadian taxes, which are
clearly the buyers responsibility. How Fed Ex allowed the buyer to receive
the shipment w/o paying the incoming fees is beyond my comprehension.

So, in short, be careful.

Dean A. Van Peursem
Snohomish, WA 98290

"He who makes decisions in haste repents at his leisure."

www.deerelegacy.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
[mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Cecil Bearden
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:38 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Shipping Small Engines?

I finished my first shipment to Canada and it was easy with FedEx.  Ups
was real pain.

Cecil in okla

John Boehm wrote:
> I am a daily UPS shipper and it has been my experience
> that their paperwork, etc. is way too complicated and
> time consuming for shipments to foreign countries. I
> do a lot of shipping to Canada, Australia, and Great
> Britain and use USPS exclusively for those countries.
> You will still have to fill out a customs form at the
> post office, but it is relatively simple.
>
> John Boehm
> Woodland, CA
> Visit my web site at http://vintagetractors.com
>
>
> --- Bill Brueck <b2 at chooka.net> wrote:
>
>
>> Will be curious as to others' experience here as I
>> struggle with
>> non-domestic shipping of eBay stuff.  I have been
>> discouraged by the
>> extensive paperwork to foreign ship via UPS and I
>> revert to USPS for
>> international sales.
>>
>> UPS does handle up to 150# now and the rates are not
>> bad for the 100# +-
>> items that I have shipped domestically.  If you're
>> already into UPS foreign
>> shipping or better than I am at the paperwork I
>> expect you'll do OK with
>> them.
>>
>> I'm sure you'll do a better packing job than I got a
>> while back with a
>> tiller engine I bought on eBay to use on my
>> grandson's minibike we were
>> building.  Came with no packing in a large box, and
>> the seller didn't even
>> drain the oil out first.  Crankcase was all busted
>> up and it was a slimy
>> mess.
>>
>> B²
>>
>> Bill Brueck (brick)
>> Chatfield, MN, USA
>>
>> Confusion is a higher state of knowledge than
>> ignorance.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On
>> Behalf Of
>> william.neff.powell at comcast.net
>> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:50 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
>> Subject: [AT] Shipping Small Engines?
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have two engines from a "Rototiller" rototiller
>> that I need to ship from
>> Pennsylvania to Niagara Falls Canada. The buyer of
>> the engines is putting
>> one of them on a tractor.
>>
>> I haven't taken them off the tillers yet but I
>> believe the combined weight
>> will be over 100lbs.
>>
>> What is my best option for shipping the engines?
>> Should I go through UPS?
>> Or, is there a better option like "Yellow"?
>>
>> I know the answer depends on the actual weight...
>>
>> What are the best shipping options for large items?
>> At what point does a
>> shipper make sense over UPS?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Will Powell
>> Pottstown, PA
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