Michael, I completely understand why you would feel as you do. But look at this way, Chump gets a military parade on his birthday and the U.S. treasury needs to raise between 25 and 45 million bucks to pay for that. The money’s got to come from SOMEWHERE.
Kirby > On Jun 1, 2025, at 10:41 AM, Michael Greenwood <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello > > I just wanted to touch on something quickly as an observation and, possibly, > a warning. > > This week I received a package of flat items from emovieposter, as usual. > However, an unusual thing was that I was told the amount owed for the pickup > was more than double what I was expecting. This put me on the path of > assuming there was a clerical error at Canada Post or the Customs office and > I was really not looking forward to trying to iron it out. I was mostly > hoping Bruce's people had mistakenly marked a wrong value on the form. > Anyway, as it turns out, there was nothing wrong. On top of the standard 13% > HST (this is a Canadian sales tax on everything we buy) on the CDN dollar > value of the package, there is now a 25% duty charge. I don't follow the > economic genius in charge in the White House but I am going to also assume > that this charge is a result of the tariff dance that has been ongoing since > 47 took over. If I am wrong and a politically astute Mopoer can explain it to > me, I'd love to hear. I also received a package or records from the US that > were valued at around $125 but there was $0 duty on the customs sheet...just > the normal tax I am used to. > > The warning part of this goes out to and Canuck collectors who may be as > surprised as I or want to avoid these spikes in pulse. The batch of posters > were valued at $422 US which comes to approximately $580 CDN. For a package > of used advertising paper "worth" that, I paid around $252 to retrieve it > from the post office once all those processing fees were tossed in. This will > have an effect on the US economy! All the posters I would notmally be bidding > on in the upcoming Bruce auctions will be missing one extra push to hammer > value. I am not buying stuff that costs me another 38% to pass into Canada. > Good news for the people I am always bidding against! The posters will still > sell but fractions do matter. I'll deal with the smaller sellers for now and > keep hoping we can keep customs and duty at bay. Or maybe it's a good time to > call my collection finished. I'm starting to feel my money can be better > spent as shipping costs and now customs/duty are forcing me to buy Canadian, > find tax cheat sellers or simply quit and enjoy what I have built. > > All the best, > M > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
