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Subject: [OM] Re: Custons Duty & Couriers (was) Re: Old man's beard
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:54:21 +1300
Andrew wrote
> 
> Only if you're feeling generous you devious old sod.
> A friend in the States once sent me a package with a declared value  
> of $250 as a unexpected,unsolicited gift - which it was. By FedEx. If  
> they'd sent it by mail, no duty. FedEx arranged for me to pay $25  
> duty on it and charged me $50 brokerage - I was not impressed to say  
> the least.
> "Hi, this is FedEx. We have a package here for you and you owe us $75."
> At first I thought it was a scam - until they told me the origin.
> Pay up or they send it back and charge the sender for return.
> Thieves.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

 Just last week I laid a complaint with the Commerce Commission about this 
sort of behaviour in New Zealand. It was via an online form.

If I don't get some sort of acknowedgement soon I'll follow up with a real 
letter.

It's high time this kind of extortion was sorted out.

Brian

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