09-30-2016, 12:46 PM
(09-30-2016, 11:57 AM)Charon Wrote: Paragraph two is indeed shocking, barq. scary if they even know the IOP it came from.
Yep. It was a few years ago. I remember you and our penguin friend advising me not to go and collect it. (The system is they contact you to say you owe import tax, you go to the post office to pay it, and then you get your package.) I didn't have to sign anything, and paid in cash. When it arrived I left it unopened for a few days just to be sure. But it was fine in the end.
It suggests much more than simply opening a sample of parcels from places they know are dodgy. To charge the the right amount of tax they had to find the right IOP to get the cost. (I checked, and they were absolutely correct.) To be fair, it was a very public IOP that didn't sell anything illegal and wasn't remotely underground. Still scary though!