Hamish McBrearty wrote: > Well I've had the exact same experience when ordering DVDs from Amazon. If > my order was over NZ$400 it seemed to vanish into an abyss for about 2 > months before Customs contacted me. Once I paid the GST on it, they > released it and sent it via carrier pidgeon (it took that bloody long!).
May have something to do with the shipping co. A few months back I ordered a couple of thousand dollars worth of stuff from the states, and they shipped it FedEx Express. It "only" took a couple of weeks to get through Customs, including the GST processing. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
