Posted by Sean Black on 04/13/07 12:06

In message <d5OdnQ8keNS5qoPbRVnytAA@giganews.com>, kim
<ntscuser@aol.com> writes
>"Cesare Cioni" <uxbridge@spamcop.net> wrote in message
>news:1hwe9nv.1vq3ws41fvm328N%uxbridge@spamcop.net...
>> kim <ntscuser@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Finally, this afternoon, confirmation from Royal Mail:-
>>>
>>> "Thank you for your email regarding the handling fee we charge for items
>>> that have attracted a Customs fee.
>>>
>>> I can confirm that as of 2 April this fee was increased to £8. This
>>> information is provided on the following page of our website:
>>>
>>> http://www.royalmail.com/portal/rm/content1?catId=400033&mediaId=400362
>>>
>>> If you require any further information about our products and services
>>> please contact us again.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Paul Walsh
>>> Customer Service Advisor "
>>
>> Weli, we are having problems with such fees in Italy, but I see that it
>> is a common trend. The advantage of having customers that have no
>> choice, I guess. Do you have a way to denounce this in the UK? Here in
>> Italy we have complained everywhere, but to no avail.
>>
>> I wonder if it is done on purpose, to discourage indivuduals from taking
>> advantage of international commerce while pretending that there is an
>> "open market". It would certainly make the entertainment industry happy,
>> as it makes it less convenient to buy Cds or DVDs from those markets
>> where they sell the same items at a lower price.
>
>We are free to buy what we like up to a value of 18UKP. Above that figure we
>get hammered for charges. Individual disc titles are pretty much unaffected,
>it is boxed sets and combined shipments which suffer the most. The stupidity
>is, it costs the UK government much more to collect these charges on small
>shipments than it raises in revenue.
>
Personally, I don't have a problem with paying import/VAT on the odd
occasions I get charged it, it's just the fucking rip-off admin charge
added by the Post Office. I'd like to know how exactly they can justify
the original £4 charge, let alone before they doubled it!
--
Sean Black

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