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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2789943, member: 71234&quot;]You may have a problem gathering your staistics because of sample size.</p><p>When I was selling on ebay I sold over 40,000 antique and collectable items including coins, probably half of them to the USA (from Britain). That was up to 10,000 packages, allowing for multiple lot packets, it is improbable there were less than 5000 packets.</p><p>Only one customer ever reported any interest from US customs, this was on an item that&nbsp; I had referred&nbsp; to as an &#039;Old Claw Brooch&#039; (a fairly common silver mounted grouse claw). This was read as an Owl Claw Brooch and it took 3 months for the relevant Gov. dept. to decided it was not an owl, not a threatened species, and the buyer told me it was delivered by hand by a game warden. He was somewhat surprised, I had already refunded him, but he was happy to pay again. I said don&#039;t bother, it was all my fault for sloppy hand writing.</p><p>To get back to the point, my practical experience was that at least between 1998 and 2010, customs interest in small imports was not extending to actually opening anything. It may take thousands of your experimental mailings to establish anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>How about Freedon of Information requests instead, asking about coins, customs and seizures for example? I have no idea how US FoI laws work, but someone must do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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