On 14Mar , 2007, at 7:27 PM, Bernard Frangoulis wrote:
>> Actually, living in France, my experience is that the sender can tick
>> whatever he likes on the shipping forms, but if it being sent with
>> any kind of declared value (such as an insurance), then the agent for
>> the currier (LaPoste, UPS, FedEx, TNT, ....) in France *will* without
>> fail slap on customs + a 100 Eur "customs handling fee", neither of
>> which you can legally dispute short of suing the state.....
>
> Well not for me. In most cases I had nothing to pay, for packages
> coming from the US or Hong Kong - of course it was mostly
> relatively low value items (say less than 250 Euro).
>
From now on, I'll have you proxy any intl. shipments I receive ;)
> I did have to pay for packages where the box was not ticked - most
> recently a Cameta package, for which I had to pay VAT plus customs
> plus Chronopost "handling fees" - some 75 Euro total, for a 225
> Euro lens. I was actually happy that Chronopost did deliver the
> lens - a rather rare occurrence in my experiences with them :-)
Chronolost - they loose parcel faster than their
competition.....man, could I tell stories of troubles sans fin with
them...
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Thomas Clausen
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