Re: Press release = customs charges
- Subject: Re: [GWL] Press release = customs charges
- From: "Yvonne Cunnington" y*@sympatico.ca
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:48:36 -0400
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Before the Chicago symposium, I received a press
release with a tiny baseball bat. (It was kinda cute and will make good
kindling this winter.) I have forgotten which company sent it and if
anyone remembers, please let me know so I can let them send them the bill
for the problem explained below.
I received a customs brokerage bill from UPS for
$3.00 for the Canadian sales tax on this gimmicky bat. This
seems to be a new problem with Canada customs: they are now charging for every
silly thing sent across the border, including gifts. Canadian garden
writers and U.S. companies mailing promotions to Canada, beware: Canada
customs is greedy and out of control.
Yvonne Cunnington
Author of Clueless in the Garden: A Guide for
the Horticulturally Helpless
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