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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brassnautilus, post: 2346280, member: 74300&quot;]That&#039;s because you dudes are Canadians. US customs is duty free. This country makes money from taxing its own people, not imports. </p><p>&nbsp; </p><p>Fedex and UPS use their own ports. The custom agents at those private ports can charge the recipient a fee for using their facilities/services. 20 some big boxes usually end up 30 or 40 bucks fee.</p><p>Since some time ago FEDEX had started sending recipient a letter/bill for those custom charges at their private ports, most of the time with $0 due, like what Doug had gotten. Waste of paper if you asked me. </p><p><br /></p><p>The aforementioned problem of mail get stuck and lost at customs is only frequent with registered mail from Germany. There are 2 places they get stuck at, Frankfurt/Flughafen and NY ISC. They must have storage spaces filled up to wazoo. My theory is they pull packages from one end only, so the stuff in the back, usually from Christmas rush, don&#039;t get moved for half a year. </p><p><br /></p><p>I lost only a few items this way, and they happened in 2012. One of them was a Vercingetorix Hostilius Saserna<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> I&#039;ve been asking German senders to use express or Fedex ever since.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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