shipping responsibility question

Complaining about the mail is an early warning sign of senile dementia.

"Jeff Wisnia" wrote

No, you're just witnessing the decline and fall of everything around you.

Society is decaying. I would cite examples, but we all have our ten favorites that we would choose if we had to choose ten.

Just do all you can to protect your own little fishbowl of a universe, and enjoy it until you die or die from exhaustion trying to protect it.

Steve

I use USPS to mail my Taco Tenders. I can mail one with USPS for around $0.80. UPS, or Fed X wants about $6.50 Yep, they lose some (around 2%) but if you consider how many I mail, I'm still saving tons of money. It takes about 1 week to get it to California from Missouri, and just 2 or 3 days to most other places.

You wanna see screwed up? Try mailing something to Canada. According to my post master, they have it to the border in about 3 days, but it often takes

That's what I found for low-cost/light things. Maybe if you're shipping

Well, we're actually showing a profit now. :)

We're at the decision making step yet again. If we want it to do REALLY well, I need to yet again invest thousands of dollars into the project. Each new step requires a new learning curve, and a new set of brass balls. :)

Robert Ringer wrote a pretty good book back in th e 1980s called "How You Can Find Happiness During the Collapse of Western Civilization "

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I'd eat the loss, and resolve to buy insurance the next time I buy anything that valuable on Ebay. It's possible to get some real gems on Ebay, but there's a lot of crap, too. Caveat Emptor, as they say.

Good Luck! Rich

Or learn how to fix Reality:

I still have a copy of Harry Browne's "How I Found Freeom In An Unfree World".

It's not for sale. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

You can say that again.

BTW Before anyone says anything I do realize that I could have prevented these excessive charges by simply not dealing with this seller.

I bid $129 on a Sony ICF SW7600GR radio from a seller on Ebay. The seller charged me $41 shipping. (I priced return shipping, it is $16.29)

The seller advertised shipping by Fed Ex. When asked to ship by US Post Office (because the brokerage fee is only $4.30) he failed to respond and shipped the item via UPS??.

When the package arrived I was faced with an additional $33.62 brokerage fee from UPS for having collected $18.89 tax on the goods and $2.36 tax on the tax ( total $54.87 )

My total cost was $224.87 ($129+$41+$33.62+$18.89+$2.36)

Had I chosen a different seller my cost could have been $168.48 ($129+$16.29+$18.89+$4.30)

You live and learn. (or) A fool and his money are soon parted.

Air mail US->Canada is reliable (a couple of days to a week and a half or so), but surface parcel post for large, heavy packages can take weeks.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

None of this stuff is lost. It goes to people who sort it out and sell it. There is no way in hell to lose packages and merchandise without somebody finding it. Unless it gets shot into outer space it is still here. It's a billions of bux scam

In defense of Canada post

they dont lose stuff.

they DO however deliver via turtle

and customs aret quick to clear packages at the border either

I've seen 4 days (no weekend) to send a letter crosstown

and i'm sure the mail hates me but all my letters get here > >