Well, after about 45 minutes on the phone with various and sundry
parties at FedEx Canada, I've come to the conclusion that, if I want to
ship my camera(s) ahead of me when I go on vacation to Great Britain in
September, I'd better be prepared to pay duty and VAT on the outbound
shipment and duty and GST on the way back to Canada. Based on the
declared value of the equipment, this could end up costing several
thousands of dollars (could well be over a grand CDN just to get the
camera equipment to Britain!).
This is an absurd situation. Apparently, I and anyone else trying to
take pictures while on vacation now have zero options except to trust
our valuable equipment to the tender mercies and honesty of the various
airports' baggage handling facilities.
What *amazing* stupidity. I hardly see much point in going most places
anymore -- I guess I'll save a lot of money on traveling in the future.
Camera quests will now be completely restricted to wherever I can
travel to via automobile. Ciao, Europe. Been nice seeing you.
Garth
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