On Dec 8, 6:12*pm, " Attila Iskander"
wrote:
wrote in message

...
On Dec 8, 12:58 pm, wrote:





On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:56:45 -0500, George
wrote:

On 12/7/2012 6:17 PM, wrote:
On Dec 7, 5:43 pm, Oren wrote:
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 16:22:53 -0600, " Attila Iskander"

wrote:
Best country in the world - and goofs like you staying away will
help
keep it that way.

Arguable point about "best country in the world"
And Canada has it's share of "goofs".

_$28 cabbage, $65 chicken, and other insane food prices in Northern
Canada _

"...It’s not just food, either — necessary sundries like diapers and
sanitary napkins are also outrageously expensive."

http://grist.org/list/28-cabbage-65-chicken-and-other-insane-food-pri...

Good find, my friend. Where's HomelessGuy when you need him?
According to him, why everything is peachy keen up there in Canada
with a perfect economy and bad
stuff only happens in the USA. At least here peppers and cabbage
don't cost $15 a pound.

Not disputing troubled "home guy" but how much do you suppose it adds to
the cost of a crate of produce if you load it on an airplane with 5
other crates and fly it 1,000 miles into the most distant of the
Northwest territories?

Rom Northern Air Cargo website:http://www.nacargo.com/shipping/rates.php

The formula to calculate total charges is weight x /lb. rate x current
fuel surcharge x tax = total

For example: a 72 lb. widget from Anchorage to Bethel would be charged
as follows;

72 lb. x .74 (rate) = $53.28
$53.28 x 12% (fuel*) = $59.67
$59.67 x 6.25% (tax) = $63.40 total charges

Effective Date: January 01, 2011

That is AMERICAN North on scheduled flights.

InnCanada, First Air, flying from Resolute to Arctic Bay,1-10KG is
$40/kg11-15Kg is $50/Kg, 16-20 is $67/kg, 21-25 is $83/kg, all the way
up to 41-44KG at $141/kg.

So, you get a pallet of cabbage, weighing 35KG into Resolute and want
to ship it to Arctic Bay, it will cost you $3990 to ship it. Say each
cabbage weighs 1Kg (2.2 lbs) the cost per cabbage is $141.

#
# Are you so dumb that you really think it costs $141 to
# ship a head of cabbage?
#
# Per your shipping rates above, why would you put it onto
# a pallet. *The heavier the weight, the more you're saying they
# charge you PER KG. * So, send it one cabbage at a time
# and it will cost a lot less.

Yup
I can just see a grocer individually wrapping and shipping cabbages
separately
And you are foolish enough to imagine that the cargo service will not start
charging a minimum ?

A grocer doesn't wrap up cabbages, the produce
supplier does. It was Clare who came up with the silly
number of $141 to ship a single cabbage 200 miles.
And I'm the foolish one? All I did was point out it's obviously
BS and that he based it in part on shipping a pallet of
cabbages. The shipping rate he posted is less for smaller
loads. So, yes, the produce shipper would package them
in smaller packages. The one head at a time was a
sarcastic exageration, which was obviously too much
for you to compute. You swallowed the $141 BS, quite
nicely though.




#
# In other words, I think as happens frequently, you've got it
# all screwed up, because those rates make no sense. *You
# want to think about it, check it out and get back to us?
#

Why don't you tell us why those rates do not make sense ?
* * Take as many screens as you need.
* * Get adult help to check your post before you send it.- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -