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Definitely. My company has several vendors that require us to use IE and Silverlight to access their products. It's been a pain for us in IT to figure out how to support those vendor's products while still maintaining security.
Oh yeah, I forgot about Silverlight, cries
If you are using Chrome on a desktop or laptop: Open a new tab in your Chrome browser. Type “chrome:plugins” in your URL address field. Under Adobe Flash Player click the checkbox next to Always allowed to run. If doing this gets your box hacked, are they providing PC repair services?
Ha. No thanks. If I go to use FedEx and flash is required I'm just going to use a different carrier. They are just delaying the inevitable. I bet there's some higher-ups at FedEx who still like flash and refuse to give it up.
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100 $ is a lot of money...you can probably handle flash just for FedEx I bet. Though you're probably right. They'll have an updated version asap.
$100 would be enough for me to clone a virtual machine, at least. I live less than 2 miles from a FedEx ground hub. I would rather walk the 30 minutes in both directions before enabling Flash for FedEx. WTF are they thinking? Pay that money to a developer to fix the problem instead of to your customers to limp along for a few more months.
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If it makes you feel any better UPS in France does that to me all the time. It isn't the carriers -- it's the protectionist tax schemes of the EU. I once had a replacement wheel for a kid's stroller sent to me in France from the US. The wheel cost $20, and I had to pay $35 in import duties -- despite that part being unavailable anywhere outside of the US. Blame the government, not FedEx.
FedEx (and apparently UPS) do this without any type of warning, they are probably exploiting some loophole in the law to be able to do it. They can't expect happy reactions from their customers. I blame them for doing it without proper communication and also anyone that plays along with them without providing proper alternatives after knowing that they do this kind of stuff. That is not the way business should be don…
No other courier has ever done any of these things.
I sincerely hope that FedEx fails. I once bought the book "FreeBSD Kernel Internals" from informit. They sent it through FedEx. I payed the shipping costs in the informit site, as standard procedure. The book passed through customs fine, then FedEx hold it and told me they would not deliver the book unless i paid them 50EUR. This is their current and common practice here in Portugal. Fsck them.
Your vendor selected to bill the duties and taxes to you.
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FedEx (and apparently UPS) do this without any type of warning, they are probably exploiting some loophole in the law to be able to do it. They can't expect happy reactions from their customers. I blame them for doing it without proper communication and also anyone that plays along with them without providing proper alternatives after knowing that they do this kind of stuff. That is not the way business should be don…
Are you sure the money actually goes to Fedex? From the description it looks like the money goes to customs, which is a government agency. In that case, it's not clear why you're angry with Fedex, which pretty much has no choice but to charge whatever the government tell them to charge.
This story is not only mine but the same story for all the individuals who ordered stuff through FedEx that i have contacted here.
I sincerely hope that FedEx fails. I once bought the book "FreeBSD Kernel Internals" from informit. They sent it through FedEx. I payed the shipping costs in the informit site, as standard procedure. The book passed through customs fine, then FedEx hold it and told me they would not deliver the book unless i paid them 50EUR. This is their current and common practice here in Portugal. Fsck them.
>passed through customs Your vendor selected to bill the duties and taxes to you.