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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3306389, member: 66"]Customs for passengers on ships and planes is one thing, Customs for merchandise and imports is something totally different. About 325,000 people fly into the US each day and have to go through customs. How many boxes or packages do you think can be packed into a 40 foot shipping container? Between 1400 to 2002 boxes that can be easily handled by one person. Something like 33,000 containers enter the US each day. That's 46 to 66 million packages a day, 7 days a week. Do you really think they open and inspect each of them? There are about 46,000 people that work for the customs dept in all capacities. If every single one of them were inspecting packages each would have to inspect between 1000 and 1400 packages a day. I'd say that unless they have gotten a tip or they see something suspicious, they just spot check.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 3306389, member: 66"]Customs for passengers on ships and planes is one thing, Customs for merchandise and imports is something totally different. About 325,000 people fly into the US each day and have to go through customs. How many boxes or packages do you think can be packed into a 40 foot shipping container? Between 1400 to 2002 boxes that can be easily handled by one person. Something like 33,000 containers enter the US each day. That's 46 to 66 million packages a day, 7 days a week. Do you really think they open and inspect each of them? There are about 46,000 people that work for the customs dept in all capacities. If every single one of them were inspecting packages each would have to inspect between 1000 and 1400 packages a day. I'd say that unless they have gotten a tip or they see something suspicious, they just spot check.[/QUOTE]
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