|
|
|
|
| Author |
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Vancouver or... ?
Posts: 1,025
|
Come on Wayne - UPS & Fedex Suck for us poor Canadians
I'm posting this on the OT board - but it's really an invite to Wayne to speak to this issue on the Canadian board...
Apparently Pelican has a new policy against using USPS on shipments to Canada. You can add my negative feedback to this new policy Wayne. I probably dropped $3 grand into the Pelican coffers over the last 12 months. Some of that wouldn't have happened if USPS had not been on the menu. UPS and FEDEX are obscene at our end with their forced brokerage and upcharges. USPS, on the other hand is generally slick as crap through a Canada goose (well at least compared to the alternatives)! Please re-visit this policy - I'd hate to have to change my shopping habits... |
||
07-26-2004, 12:30 PM
|
|
|
Lurkasaurus
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 930
|
No doubt.. brokerage sucks.. USPS is the way to go..
__________________
Tony '77 930 "Objects in mirror are losing" "Oh cock..." - James May |
||
|
07-26-2004, 12:54 PM
|
|
|
undervalued member
|
fed ex sucks whether its here or that other place up north.
__________________
78SC PRC Spec911 (sold 12/15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7I6HCCKrVQ Now gone: 03 996TT/75 slicklid 3.oL carb'd hotrod 15 Rubicon JK/07.5 LMM Duramax 4x/86 Ski Nautique Correct Craft |
||
|
07-26-2004, 01:42 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 419
|
I agree. Postal is the only way to go.
On a side note. Where in SK are you turbocarrera? I am in Stoon..... |
||
|
07-26-2004, 07:07 PM
|
|
|
Registered
|
this would not be good... and must be a very recent thing as my order of two weeks ago came USPS Air Mail... five day turn-around and gst and pst only!
__________________
'70 911S 1002938 '70 Ducati Mark 3D 350 |
||
|
07-26-2004, 07:16 PM
|
|
|
Lurkasaurus
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 930
|
gorfllub, I'm in Stoon as well.. Is your SC red with a turbo tail and black fuchs? I saw one twice in the last two weeks that I've never seen before. That you?
__________________
Tony '77 930 "Objects in mirror are losing" "Oh cock..." - James May |
||
|
07-26-2004, 09:06 PM
|
|
|
|
vott does ziss do?
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Seattle
Posts: 6,676
|
UPS and FedEx suck below the 48th (close enough) parallel as well. as a former retailer, I actually had better luck with USPS for on-time shipment at a lower cost. and they always delivered when they said they would
__________________
|
||
|
07-27-2004, 12:28 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 419
|
Yeah turbo.... most likely it was myself.... is yours Red as well? I saw a red turbo bodied car a couple of weeks ago as well..... I work at Tiger Automotive, and the car is usually parked out back....
Jeremy |
||
|
07-27-2004, 07:24 AM
|
|
|
Lurkasaurus
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 930
|
Ya mine's red too.. gotta love guards red! I'll stop by and have a look.
__________________
Tony '77 930 "Objects in mirror are losing" "Oh cock..." - James May |
||
|
07-27-2004, 01:13 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2004
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 419
|
WooHoo... well my car is the 204hp spec, so my HP aint too far off of yours..... I think we may have to race!
|
||
|
07-27-2004, 02:00 PM
|
|
|
Lurkasaurus
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: SK, Canada
Posts: 930
|
Well that's better than nothing, Wayne. I understand your need to track orders. I'll just place smaller orders - it'll still be cheaper than brokerage.
 Jeremy.. it's on! Then..   
__________________
Tony '77 930 "Objects in mirror are losing" "Oh cock..." - James May |
||
|
07-27-2004, 03:34 PM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Vancouver or... ?
Posts: 1,025
|
USPS says right here on their website that they offer insurance on international packages of up to $675 !!!
Come on Wayne - if I'm buying $100 or less - I might just as well slip into the local stealership as wait on the package from socal. Change your policy or else!!!!! (...uh, else what um, well we'll just see about that young man...) Oh, and congrats on the new family member - be thankful that you didn't have to deal with UPS on that delivery!!! |
||
|
07-29-2004, 06:09 AM
|
|
|
Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2001
Posts: 9,569
|
Quote:
http://www.usps.com/ (Not affiliated with the postal service although I did cheer their bike team)
__________________
'66 911 #304065 Irischgruen ‘96 993 Carrera 2 Polarsilber '81 R65 Ex-'71 911 PCA C-Stock Club Racer #806 (Sold 5/15/13) Ex-'88 Carrera (Sold 3/29/02) Ex-'91 Carrera 2 Cabriolet (Sold 8/20/04) Ex-'89 944 Turbo S (Sold 8/21/20) |
||
|
07-29-2004, 06:46 AM
|
|
|
Registered
|
Every time I complain to the 'guy in brown' about paying $30.00 in brokerage fees, he says that I have the option to do the brokerage paperwork myself. It would probably take my lunch hour, some driving around... and I wouldn't get my stuff as quick... but it is an option, or so I am told.
__________________
'70 911S 1002938 '70 Ducati Mark 3D 350 |
||
|
07-29-2004, 09:11 AM
|
|
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: planet earth
Posts: 2,251
|
Yes you can brokeage your own goods with FedEx or UPS.
__________________
78 Euro 911sc Targa 03 Hayden SCWDP |
||
|
07-29-2004, 11:08 AM
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: To the moon Alice
Posts: 384
|
Yee haw!
I'm so darned excited I could just spit! This has no impact on me, it's just so nice to see this thread come to a happy ending for all those sweet Canadians. (er, um... do ya think you could arrange to take Celine back now - and we'll call it square? We'll keep Jim Carrey and those other goof balls - Canada gets Celine and USPS on Pelican shipments -sounds pretty fair to me...)
__________________
the odd Porsche here and there |
||
|
07-29-2004, 11:36 AM
|
|
the 23 car
domino
