>Items valued at £18 and over, entering UK (not as MIB) from outside the EEC,
>are liable to duty & tax. Whether or not they bother to charge this tax
>seems
>to be a bit of a lottery. If it comes on a courier, you can bet they will
>get
>the money, sooner or later. The Post office, otoh, ahe
John wrote:
An lost/damaged shipment rate of 1 in 20 is extremely common amongst
all the major carriers operating from the USA. Our shipping companies
may be the last bastion of the old "we don't give a s**t" method of
quality control.
My reply:
This is just not acceptable today. Why should we e
Peter wrote:
Mind you, if the seller were to mark the box "faulty equipment returned for
repair - no duty payable", then you might be correct.
Malcolm's comments:
A message on the box to allow the various postal services to treat it with
contempt - hey! It was broken anyway.
Seriously, is it j
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