bakedjake - 8:37 pm on Dec 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

We ship from the US and recently had a CA customer get tapped for $46 on a $100 order shipped UPS Ground.

Yeah, UPS Ground is one of those exorbitant carriers. They charge $29 for a shipment of $100 value, plus $4.25 COD charge, plus some kind of invoice integrity fee if you don't have a proper commercial export invoice filled out, plus GST.

That customer wasn't getting charged by the government - that was UPS. ;-)