RE: Parcelforce fees

["White, Peter" <peter.white@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

UPS do the same, though I think it's 'only' =A310. Basically the fee is to
cover the admin in recovering the Customs fees, and passing them back to
C&E.

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From: Mal Lansell [mailto:mlansell@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 19 October 2004 17:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Parcelforce fees


I thought I'd ask about this here since a lot of you have order stuff from
the US -

I recently bought a telescope digital camera adaptor from the states. 
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with the expected 17.5% VAT charge from customs, parcelforce added their
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=A313.50 "handling" charge.

This seems a bit off to me - postage ($31) had been paid properly by the
company that sent the goods - I don't see why Parcelforce gets to charge
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another fee, and effectively hold my goods to ransom to get it.  It smells
like a scam to me.

The postage, VAT and this "fee" added another =A355 to the cost
of the item=
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that wiped out a goodly chunk of the savings from buying overseas :-(

Anyone else get scammed like this?  Does it seem unfair to you too?

Mal