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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.travel
Subject: Re: warning re shipping stuff home
Message-ID: <1579@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 13:39:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.1579
Posted: Thu Sep  5 13:39:28 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Sep-85 04:36:04 EDT
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Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
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Summary: 

In article <255@decwrl.UUCP> kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling) writes:
>I've forgotten the shipping
>charges (not large enough to make an impression, I assume), but no
>duty was collected.  This must vary by country of origin, or else US
>Snail slipped up.  

I think that the collection of duty on packages shipped from foreign
countries is somewhat random.  Last time we went to Europe, we had
several things shipped back (sweaters from Norway and glassware from
Denmark), and no duty was collected on any of it.  The shipping charges
were not outrageous (less than the VAT, as I recall, and it's hard to
get a VAT refund when you leave the country on a train in the middle of
the night), and no duty was collected.  (The Danish store (BoligHus)
marked our package as "Unsolicited gift, value less than $25" with a big
red sticker.  This may have had something to do with it, although the
little green customs form gave the actual value in kroner (about $150,
as I recall).)  In any case, it sure beat carrying around 30 pieces of
fragile crystal for 3 more weeks!


-- 
=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
	"To feel at home, stay at home.  A foreign country is not designed
	 to make [one] comfortable.  It's designed to make its own people
	 comfortable."  Clifton Fadiman