Bloody customs - Collecting Tiki

TW Trader Woody Member Tiki Manor, Forest of Bowland,UK Joined: Mar 25, 2002 Posts: 2301	TW Trader Woody Posted posted on Thu, Jul 1, 2004 11:05 AM Aye, I got nailed with the customs for the same mug. Ouch! What was weird was that I thought customs hadn't noticed it, but a few weeks later, I got a bill from the company that sent it (Fed Ex?). I ingnored it, then got another from some debt collection company! Cheers!! It seems that if you send stuff via the US postal service, it's up to local customs to spot it, then bill you but if it's sent via a company like Fed Ex, they bill you whether customs spots it or not, then add on their own charge. So my advice to folks sending stuff out of the country is to use the normal postal service, mark items as gifts, and mark down the wholesale price rather than the retail price. Trader Woody

Aye, I got nailed with the customs for the same mug. Ouch! What was weird was that I thought customs hadn't noticed it, but a few weeks later, I got a bill from the company that sent it (Fed Ex?). I ingnored it, then got another from some debt collection company! Cheers!!

It seems that if you send stuff via the US postal service, it's up to local customs to spot it, then bill you but if it's sent via a company like Fed Ex, they bill you whether customs spots it or not, then add on their own charge.

So my advice to folks sending stuff out of the country is to use the normal postal service, mark items as gifts, and mark down the wholesale price rather than the retail price.

Trader Woody

Post #99604 by Trader Woody on Thu, Jul 1, 2004 11:05 AM