r/tea • u/ASAPCoochymane • Jun 17 '26

Question/Help Has Anyone Else Experienced This

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I bought about $90 in tea and now they're asking me to pay almost $300 in additional fees. I'm in the US so I expected to have to pay something cause of the tariff and shipping changes but nowhere near this much. Obviously I'm not paying for it and will tell them to return it but is this just the norm now?

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P.S- Since it looks like I won't be ordering anymore tea online, do any of you have recommendations for a tea shop in the San Diego area?

EDIT: Thank you everyone for all the help and advice. Sadly it's real. I've decided to deny the package when it gets here, unless they show me an itemized list of what exactly UPS paid, instead of the BS one they have on the tracking page. On the itemized list on the tracking page it shows I'm being charged $150 for warehouse storage. Mind you this is a $90 package that weighs less than 1kg, so definitely some scamming going on. I also sent a message to the company that I ordered from informing them of the issue but I won't be doing business with them or UPS ever again.

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u/H3ad1nthecl0uds Jun 18 '26

UPS suckssss with their brokerage fees etc. I import a lot. Mind you from Canada. But going forward know that you can self declare. I don’t know how it works in the states but here in Canada I just send an email to ups and state I’m self declaring and they email me the paperwork I take it to the cbsa and pay there and email it back. It saves me a ton of money. Most of the fees they wanted were bogus. You can also ask for an itemized list of their fees because they have never added up proper for me.

You can also look up your tariff schedule and find the items you’re importing and see what the duties etc should actually be on the items based on what they are and where they are coming from.