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Posted by kim on 05/31/07 12:55
"Nimrod" <ak@ak.com> wrote in message news:Pnz7i.1$cU.0@newsfe28.ams...
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> "Turbohat" <bob@bob.com> wrote in message
> news:Zty7i.216927$MW1.63238@fe03.news.easynews.com...
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>> "Meng" <nospam@fnarg.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:Nkn7i.45293$4a.22738@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>> Turbohat wrote:
>>>> "kim" <ntscuser@aol.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:3cidnce7O-4L9cDbnZ2dnUVZ8saonZ2d@giganews.com...
>>>>> "Turbohat" <bob@bob.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:pYb7i.21078$3h2.18840@fe08.news.easynews.com...
>>>>>> 8 years of importing DVDs and the 1st time I've been stung by
>>>>>> customs!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 17.63
>>>>> Is it the first time you've exceeded the personal import limit?
>>>>>
>>>>> (kim)
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>>>> Nope, been lucky up til now though
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>>> How much was the value of the goods?
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>> I think it was about $110 (US). Fair cop for the VAT but the PO handling
>> charge annoys me though.
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> that's always my bugbear. Ok, getting caught by the customs once in a
> awhile, that's the risk you take - sometimes you win sometimes you don't.
> But the PO handling charge? The sooner someone in authority takes them to
> task over that the better
Has it ever occured to you that it was "someone in authority" who ordered
Royal Mail to impose the charge in the first place?
(kim)
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