Post #1045 by stuckieshaft on Fri, Apr 26, 2002 9:03 AM

As I am now sending more and more stuff out of the country I have learned the many things to do to avoid these duty fees.
As you all had said before label it as gift. The only reason I insure my foreign orders is just so I can track them, I have had a couple get lost. So I dont always delare the package as it full value, in hopes that the heavy duty fees are not added. In some cases I will make a bogus invoice and include that in the package to confirm the prices.
The newest one I just found out recently was to not list the tiki mugs as "mugs" and just as "ceramics". If they have time they will actually test the mugs for lead and charge the customer the fee to test it.
I got a chuckle out of that one.

-stuckie