Shipping - are all people dumb?

Order from BH. $600 in paper and ink for my bidness. Shipping is $140 bucks for 3-5 bidness day UPS express.

3 weeks later my tracking info is finally updated. Receiver has moved. So (UPS) you're telling me that Club Med has moved? When I see the lady from UPS almost every time I go to IGA and she knows be by name?

So now I'm paperless, having to pay the local gougers still. Man was on the moon before I was born and I'm pushing 40. In this day and age of internet, whirlygigs and electric lighting you'd think that shipping a package from New York to an airport in the caribbean would be feasible since it has been accomplished before by same companies to same receiver.

Silver lining? I need to add a lens nad a filter to my order once it gets back to BH. If I get nailed for shipping twice I'll just call my CC company and make waves.

Happy Thanksgiving America!

edit: My wife thinks I need a drink tonight. It's been one of those weeks.

$140 to ship and it's still cheaper than local? Damn.

Did the UPS lady have anything to say about it? Wouldn't she have had to try and deliver it if it had gotten there?

I'll have a chat with her in the morning.

Yeah, Canon BCI-6 ink is $20 a pop here. 20 sheets of photopaper pro is $16.99

I bought 10 of each colour and 500 sheets of Ilford yummy pearl.

If BH lets me add a 70-200 F4 Is and a 77mm CP I'll be happy....with no extra shipping.

Ouch. $20 would buy two here.

Yes but I pay no income taxes....

Nor do I.

Such are the vagueries of life in the tropics of paradise. Just grin and bear it, I guess.

Oh, and dump that ink sucking printer. Get a big Epson. Your ink will last you a year with the 220ml cartridges. I got them on ebay for less than half of B&H's cost.

mark

1. I hate UPS.
2. See #1.

The couldn't deliver to the next door house if they tried.

Ronald S. Jr. wrote in post #2305335
Nor do I.

Really? We need to talk.

cosworth wrote in post #2305306
Yes but I pay no income taxes....

Really? We need to talk.

Nothing abstract here, Doc. If you don't make money, you don't pay taxes.

I live in Iowa and I don't pay taxes
Each year the Govt gives me a bit of my own money back, without any interest charges I would have got if I had loaned it to someone else