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On Dec 8, 6:12 pm, " Attila Iskander"
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On Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:56:45 -0500, George
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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"

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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.


Redirection noted and ignored


# It was Clare who came up with the silly
# number of $141 to ship a single cabbage 200 miles.

She also supplied the rate chart from which it was derived


# And I'm the foolish one?

Actually you are

# All I did was point out it's obviously BS

And obviously you were wrong
But then armchair Monday Morning quarterbacks usually are.


# 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.
#

The difference between you and people who have actually been up there is
that you are ignorant
But it is funny to see you spin and pontificate to cover for your ignorance.

If as you claim the service could be provided cheaper, you would have some
guy in a plane flying crates of cabbages up there and making a fortune
Since it's not the case, and we don't have a "Cabbage King of Frobisher
Bay", we can only conclude that once again, you are not functionning in the
real world



#
# 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.
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