[geeks] Stupid people rant

[Alice Conrad]

I was getting stuck with Duty for beading stuff sent from the US
I wasn't delivered my stuff until it was paid
we paid the Duty via cc they never bothered to process it and we got a 
letter from a collection agency at Xmas ....

Whereupon the collection agency told up that they(FedEx) often mess 
about with getting the money from ccs. We also had a FedEx account.

Live and learn ( FedEx seemed to thing i was a company so was liable for 
commercial what ever....)
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 11:21 PM, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:35:02PM -0500, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
>> Well that is all fine if the person on the recieving end is clueful 
>> and has an
>> account set up with a large carrier. I have been fist fsck'ed by FedEx 
>> when
>> they billed ME for the bloody taxes on several shipments to Canada 
>> since the
>> recipient did not have a FedEx account.
>
> How odd, I don't have a Fedex account, and when furriners send me stuff 
> by
> Fedex it gets delivered along with an invoice for the import duty.  
> Which
> I have never paid because I never agreed to pay Fedexes handling 
> charges :-)
>
> But the people who've shipped me stuff have never ended up paying for it
> either.  I guess Fedex just eat the charge cos it's not worth chasing 
> up.
>
>> the other thing is customs. they hold things up and I get yelled at.
>> <crybaby>Where's my widget! Waaaaa!!</crybaby>
>
> " Here's the tracking number, oh look, $carrier says customs are dicking
>   about with it.  Please moan at your elected representative " :-)
>
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