I was being very generic in my description, mostly to show that land movement of an item is where you will pay the high fees. However, thank you so much for the clarification.
The stupid thing in all this is that air is handled pretty much the exact same way as far as electronic filing goes.
They're all brokerage companies, including many of the buildings that look like houses. There's also the CBSA commercial building which houses the CBSA commercial offices, truck docks and a bunch of brokerages itself. The street directly to the north of this one has a bunch of brokerage comapnies, too.
reply to dsa I'm confused, is the problem that $180 gifts should not be subject to customs charges and UPS clearance fees? If so, take it up the line at UPS. Did UPS instruct you to present fraudulent customs documentation?