Customs are the suck

[eternalX]

I've now been burned twice by customs in the last month. First, i sold a cheap digital camera to a guy through ebay for $70 US. I paid UPS $11 US to ship the camera surface and then customs hit the guy up for $45 CDN. $9 CDN for customs and a $36 service fee. After a cople weeks of wrangling they brought down the charge to $30 CDN total.

 

Next, I just went to buy some gear from MEC for a trip on July 7th and they can't guarantee they can get it here in time because of customs. They can only send it surface and it would have to be delivered by next thursday with the holiday and all.

 

 

Why the hell is it such a big deal to ship things from Canada to the US and vice-versa?! It's exactly afghanistan. I'd be up for annexing that damn country if I wasn't so sure we'd fuck it up. Maybe Canda can be a good capitalist and just buy us. All they would have to do is assume all debt, right?

 

[thelawgoddess]

yeah, they *are* suck, but that's what you get for buying outside the states. sorry, dude!

[JoshK]

Don't worry, the day will come when Canada will help increase the U.S. state total well into the 60s.

[allthumbs]

don't let those frenchies in though

[catbirdseat]

We need someone with an artistic flair to draw us new map of North America showing the US (all 60 states), Mexico, and Quebec.

[eternalX]

yea...i should've bought at REI where everything is more expensive and made in China!

 

[JoshK]

catbirdseat said:

We need someone with an artistic flair to draw us new map of North America showing the US (all 60 states), Mexico, and Quebec.

 

And also to add on to this animation showing the annexing of canada in 2012!!

 

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html