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Originally Posted by jaapv
Yeah - over here the customs tax the incoming packages. One may get lucky with the volume of traffic and/or inefficiency when using USPS as the sending carrier or by misdeclaring the value, but don't count on it. Courier packages are always taxed at border crossing.
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All true. I was unable to pick up my M9 in person in the US a few months back. We shipped it to me in a plain brown box, using USPS, identifying the contents as "Leica camera" and stating its value, shall we say, conservatively. It got lost for a while, but once I found it, it was being held at customs in the postal system, waiting for me to explain the possible discrepancy between the word "Leica" and the stated value. I spent a morning sorting this out, and either because I didn't lie too much, looked respectable, and/or teach at the university from which the section chief in the office was an alumnus, they cut me a deal. Never again!
scott