yossie Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Today, I went to the nearest post office to ship Cohiba sublime extra to Trevor. Me:Excuse me, I want to ship it to Australia via airmail or EMS. Clerk:Welcome Mr. Let me see the box little... Oh, It has kitten paints on the box. It's not good. Because The Australian customs once sent back a parcel with vegetable paints. That didn't contain such items inside though. So, This parcel also will be sent back to you by the customs. OK? Of course, I said OK.... By the way, Can you beleive the stick cost me more than 150 USD?
Ken Gargett Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Today, I went to the nearest post office to ship Cohiba sublime extra to Trevor. Me:Excuse me, I want to ship it to Australia via airmail or EMS. Clerk:Welcome Mr. Let me see the box little... Oh, It has kitten paints on the box. It's not good. Because The Australian customs once sent back a parcel with vegetable paints. That didn't contain such items inside though. So, This parcel also will be sent back to you by the customs. OK? Of course, I said OK.... By the way, Can you beleive the stick cost me more than 150 USD? yoss, perhaps you should have spoken to him in japanese. he might have understood you better.
Trevor2118 Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 yos, perhaps you should have spoken to him in japanese. he might have understood you better. Perhaps he thought there was a cat in the box ?.........
yossie Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 When Australian customs officer see a box with kitten paint, He/She may think cat is inside the box and sends back to here without inspecting the inside. The clerk said so..
Trevor2118 Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 When Australian customs officer see a box with kitten paint, He/She may think cat is inside the box and sends back to here without inspecting the inside.The clerk said so.. Lets just hope the box and the Customs officer do not meet.....may they pass in the night, like ships at sea
El Presidente Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Australian Customs has a militancy that is only rivaled by Canadian Customs
strayvector Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Australian Customs has a militancy that is only rivaled by Canadian Customs Did they inspect the package from US Customs?
El Presidente Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Did they inspect the package from US Customs? !LOL! They did Sam. They held it up for an eternity but in the end.....they let it through
PDC1 Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 yoss, perhaps you should have spoken to him in japanese. he might have understood you better. I do like your work, Ken.
Jay Hemingway Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 im lost here gents.....what is kitten paints?
cigarros Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 This problem similiar like in Russia. I can't send cigars to my international friends (in Deutchland-Germany) because cigars is tax good (tobacco, coffee, alcohol, perfume) and custumer's officer not sure that I send gift))) -Ok! What can I do? -Nothing! -May I send this like a photo frame? -Perhaps... -Ok, I re-wright invoice info! -It's unlegally, broth! -What can I do? -Find another exit! And I remember about one my friend (Hungarian Embassy stuff) who could help me....... Few weeks later cigars were delivered... Yossie! Good Luck! Dmitrii Drutsa, Russia
yossie Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 This is painted on the parcel. im lost here gents.....what is kitten paints?
audio1der Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Why can't you simply re-cover the parcel with brown mailing paper and resend?
Trevor2118 Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Why can't you simply re-cover the parcel with brown mailing paper and resend? My wife does not like me getting plain brown paper parcels
Van55 Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Yossie, U.S. Customs is not nearly as painstaking as Austrailian. Please feel free to send me a Cohiba Sublime Extra in kitty paint wrapping paper. It will surely clear customs, so long as you do not itemize it as "Cuban Contraband Cigar." Thank you.
Ken Gargett Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 This is painted on the parcel. so i guess that the cat is out of the bag!
yossie Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 Yossie, U.S. Customs is not nearly as painstaking as Austrailian. Please feel free to send me a Cohiba Sublime Extra in kitty paint wrapping paper. It will surely clear customs, so long as you do not itemize it as "Cuban Contraband Cigar." Thank you. Send 200 USD to my paypal account :-
Don Candido Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 So let me get this straight; You are saying drawings or paintings of Kittens are illegal to import into Australia?
yossie Posted January 16, 2009 Author Posted January 16, 2009 Hi Peter. The Australian customs may understand It contains illegal products like cat and then send back to Japan.
Warren Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Strayvector, your avatar... thank you! You can see up my top , you can see up my top , you can see up my top. Yes that's right , I've watched that avatar long enough to figure out what she's saying.
Warren Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Yossi I think your post man was more full of **** than a box full of kitties
Ken Gargett Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 So let me get this straight; You are saying drawings or paintings of Kittens are illegal to import into Australia? given that yoss was stopped in japan, one has to assume that it is a problem with their laws, not ours. would be odd, otherwise. absolutely no reason for it to be a problem here but who knows...
Freefallguy Posted January 16, 2009 Posted January 16, 2009 Australian Customs has a militancy that is only rivaled by Canadian Customs On entering customs in Brisbane the boys and I debated as to whether or not we should declare some seashells. I opted not to do so in as much as we didn’t need the hassle. We were in a horrendously long line and as we inched forward observed that custom agents were X-raying EVERY bag. At that point we decided it best to amend our form to declare the shells. Of course when the first agent saw our form he militantly marched us off into another lane, of four people. The very courteous female agent took one look at the shells in a zip lock and said “That’s it?” and cleared us without so much as checking any other bag. We circumvented a corral of at least 150 people. Now I declare food every time I come back into the US and get similar “express” service.
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