UPS Class Action Lawsuit

[Samw]

Someone's finally doing something about it. hehe.

http://www.mytelus.com/news/article....icleID=2427673

B.C. man sets off class-action lawsuit against UPS over hidden brokerage fees

VANCOUVER (CP) - Hidden fees seem to be an everyday irritant for consumers, but a B.C. man is so angry about a fee charged by United Parcel Service he's willing to become the point man for a class-action lawsuit.

It started after Robert Macfarlane purchased an amplified telephone device from Arizona over the Internet last year.
He knew he would have to pay shipping and handling fees and government levies, but he was also ordered to pay a $38.40 brokerage fee charged by UPS.

"It's outrageous," said Macfarlane's lawyer Jim Poyner.


"It's a surcharge that nobody agrees to, nobody knows anything about it until the delivery person is at the door."
Poyner said Tuesday he expects hundreds of thousands of people have been in the same situation across the country and there are plans to file a similar lawsuit in Ontario. "It's certainly a problem that affects the entire country."
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