On 3/5/2012 6:06 PM, Don Allen wrote:
And, yes, the custom form was correctly filled out.
I once sent a couple of microphones to a gal
in the UK - for speech recognition - she was
handicapped and these worked especially well
and could be mounted to her wheel chair.
I marked the box + Gift - because it was a gift.
Both US and UK Customs had a conniption and
I eventually had to file an Affidavit with purchase
receipts indicating the price I paid was $9 (a close
out at RadioCrack) and copies of my email
correspondence offering to and from her discussing
the matter, before they released it without a tariff.
In contrast, I buy stuff on eBay which comes marked
+Gift all the time... and it NEVER gets held up in
customs.
Go figure. I guess it does not have to make sense.
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