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<blockquote data-quote="Joe" data-source="post: 409457" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>I can't offer you any advice but I had an interesting conversation about customs the other month. My next door neighbour is a postman and he recently brought me a parcel from America that had $75 declared value on the customs form. I was expecting a note to say I had to pay a fee but I didn't have to pay any customs fees at all. Result for me but I've read here that people have had ridiculous charges on $20 t-shirts and other low value items so I was left scratching my head. I asked him about this and he said he once spent the day at whatever depot it was that handled things like that and he said they basically just do every other parcel or ones that (in his words) "look valuable" (clothing shipments, electrical items/goods etc).</p><p></p><p>Not sure how much truth there is to that but if it is true it's one hell of a crap system. Either we all have to pay customs or we don't, shouldn't come down to pot luck with some unlucky sods parcel being selected the day it comes into the country when someone else's goes through for free.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe, post: 409457, member: 440"] I can't offer you any advice but I had an interesting conversation about customs the other month. My next door neighbour is a postman and he recently brought me a parcel from America that had $75 declared value on the customs form. I was expecting a note to say I had to pay a fee but I didn't have to pay any customs fees at all. Result for me but I've read here that people have had ridiculous charges on $20 t-shirts and other low value items so I was left scratching my head. I asked him about this and he said he once spent the day at whatever depot it was that handled things like that and he said they basically just do every other parcel or ones that (in his words) "look valuable" (clothing shipments, electrical items/goods etc). Not sure how much truth there is to that but if it is true it's one hell of a crap system. Either we all have to pay customs or we don't, shouldn't come down to pot luck with some unlucky sods parcel being selected the day it comes into the country when someone else's goes through for free. [/QUOTE]
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