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Today’s Blog Post
Highway Robbery
Take a good look at the “Easter Thingie”. It is something that I designed for a Tatting Challenge that I take part in at different times of the year. Simple, isn’t he?
Next I designed the Tatting for his eyes, mouth, lace surround, and the ears. I had the thread already and made up the design as I went a long. No cost there.
But then I had to ship it to my friend. It wasn’t going to Hong Kong nor to Russia… not even Australia. It was going to go a short distance to Kitchener, Ontario… that is about as far from Toronto as we are… maybe a three hour drive from our home.
At the post office I found what my simple little tatted gift was going to be charged to travel to Kitchener.
First the bubble pack – it cost $1.39
Then the Regular Parcel fee for mailing it was $7.93
There was no HST added yet.
There also was no HST added to the amount for Delivery confirmation – because I didn’t want that… but if I had asked for that service there would be a tax on it… with no real promise that it would get there on time – but they would tell me it arrived. DUH! So would the person that received it~!!!!!
The receipt is 14 inches long BTW.
The next item as I read it nearly blew me away…
Are you ready for the ultimate STUPID CHARGE – and it is STUPID… unfair and unrealistic!
There it is 67 CENTS for a Fuel Charge! And it indicates that there is HST to be added to that amount as well !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stupid – Unfair – Ridiculous – Insane – plus a lot of &^%$#$% ^(*&!@#^&% and $&*(^*()&^^*!!!!!
The total of these amounts listed came to $9.99 but then you needed to pay the $1.30 HST.
The HST was ONE CENT MORE THAN THE STUPID EGG!!!!!
Total was $11.29 to get it to the place I wanted it to go.
I work with many criminal in jail and out of jail. But I have yet to work with Postal Workers or Postal Authorities – where the biggest crooks work out of.
Now it makes little difference for people in other parts of Canada… but in Peterborough it is something that we are more than aware of… changes have been made – really STUPID Changes!!!
Not long ago we were informed that all our mail that is placed in a Mail Box – no matter where it goes… it leaves that Mail Box for a truck that takes it all to Ottawa… where it is sorted… then it is trucked back to the city where it is suppose to go. Like Peterborough for example will get it later after it has gone to Ottawa!
Back at the Post Office the gal had to weigh the wooden egg, measure the package, and then punch it all into the computer… so she could see how much the fuel charge would be.
Now I am not really a tight wad. I don’t mind paying my way. But I HATE BEING TAKEN FOR AN IDIOT!
There is no blasted way that egg would use 67 Cents in fuel – that is one half a litre!
But it gets better…
My friend and her husband are getting ready to got to visit relatives in Scotland in the next few weeks. There was a seat sale – amazing simply amazing!
The tickets cost only $199 each – one way. That is only $398 dollars a person to Scotland and back!!!
But guess what!
With all the taxes, fuel charges and added Government tack-ons – the Tickets are now $898 each! That’s right! You read that correctly. The Taxes are $500 each – or a $1000 for the couple!
I just found out that there are more crooks in the Government than there are in our Federal Prisons! There are only 14,000 Federal Inmates… but there are maybe a Quarter Million Government Civil Servants… or more!
And this present election big is simply driving me crazy. I am being asked to see which local crook is the best one for me to place in that big building in Ottawa. That is so unfair!
67 Bloody Cents for one egg!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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