Cidien Wrote:A lot (all?) of countries open gifts up and tax them sometimes. That really, really is bs.
Do they? I know that out of the 10x I shipped to UK and at least another 10x to Asia, the packages were never opened by the customs. At least nobody complained to me.
However, ever since 2006, I always get my packages opened whenever I have stuffs shipped to me from Singapore/HK/Japan.
Freaking PITA especially when it's a package from Singapore. My mum will always ship some of my favourite food in the box and those greedy custom dorks never fail to take 1 or 2 pack of each type of food. They ALWAYS take the pretty and tasty cookies. ARG.... I betcha that it's not coz of custom duties, it's because they want to try the food BECAUSE, they never take any of those which don't look good.