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Message:: [QUOTE="Collector1966, post: 1305934, member: 17919"]I had been mail-ordering coins from the US for a while back in the '90s without any problem, but then I ordered a gold coin from an American dealer and was told I had to go to the post office to pick up the package. At the post office they took me to the back room and told me I had to pay 5% of the declared value as customs tax, which made the tax around $35. When I opened the package at the P.O., I was disappointed to find that the coin was way overgraded, so I asked if I could have a refund of the tax because I was going to send the coin back, right then, at that P.O. But they told me that since I had opened the package, I had to pay the tax, regardless. It ended up costing me $50 (tax + postage) just for the privilege of looking at and returning that overgraded coin.[/QUOTE]