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<p>[QUOTE="Collecting Nut, post: 24798888, member: 74863"]I avoid customs as those guys are crazy. I used to work for a company that did business across the Canadian border. I drive the truck and one day the customs officials confiscated not only the load I was carrying but the entire truck.</p><p>They claimed that my paperwork was incorrect. In their opinion I was carrying calendars. In reality all I had was pallets for two months of the year. The sheets only had the name of the month and the days of the month on the sheet. They were not trimmed the size and names and addresses of the company logos were not printed on the pages.</p><p>But in the eyes of the customs officials they were full calendars, ready to be sold at full retail. It took them 3 weeks to determine the paperwork and customs invoices were correct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collecting Nut, post: 24798888, member: 74863"]I avoid customs as those guys are crazy. I used to work for a company that did business across the Canadian border. I drive the truck and one day the customs officials confiscated not only the load I was carrying but the entire truck. They claimed that my paperwork was incorrect. In their opinion I was carrying calendars. In reality all I had was pallets for two months of the year. The sheets only had the name of the month and the days of the month on the sheet. They were not trimmed the size and names and addresses of the company logos were not printed on the pages. But in the eyes of the customs officials they were full calendars, ready to be sold at full retail. It took them 3 weeks to determine the paperwork and customs invoices were correct.[/QUOTE]
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