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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;john59, post: 2109628, member: 73760&quot;]The customs in the post office (US and foreign) check the packages. Why do you think that some items can sit there for 4 weeks? I just don&#039;t think they put them in a corner and wait. They are checked. If you ever get anything that has tracking on it from Europe, you&#039;ll see that it goes through their postal system and their customs, then it goes to the NY customs and then back into the postal system.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, the customs that check the containers of course bring in more revenue than the post office. But it is equally important that the country gets all the revenue they can. So they do treat the postal revenue with high regard as for them to collect their taxes. That&#039;s what they use to pay the workers. As I seen, they take their jobs very seriously and for the security of the country.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sellers in Europe don&#039;t want to sell to the US because of the tracking and loss of packages. I know this firsthand. It&#039;s not even the cost, almost. The Express mail, FedEx or any private company they still do not want to send it to the US. This is a disturbing trend. It&#039;s not that it got to a point where nobody wants to send to the US, but it&#039;s getting there. The US sellers are having the same problem: cost and no way of knowing if the item arrived. Most of the world now, works with PayPal. And you know that you have to show tracking that they can upload from the internet and verify it from the internet. Especially on eBay. </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course you don&#039;t put a $20 gold coin on the form. But you do put numismatic with the right value. If you&#039;re using a private company, especially for sending to Central and South America, you have no problem with them stealing it. They walk it through customs. The buyer pays a tax, package is delivered, everyone is happy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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