Yes, I'm a little uncertain about contesting duty on non-new items.
I think the carriers charge duty first, ask questions later,
sometimes leaving out the questions!
Give us a shout when you're in town; I'm only 15 miles west of
Cambridge. My son works in Fat Face in the centre.
We missed having a ZA meeting when John Hudson was over.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
+44 (0)7092 251126
www.threeshoes.co.uk
homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 12 Aug 2006, at 16:34, Garth wrote:
> Chris:
>
> Well, you were one of the folks I was gonna try and synch up with
> anyway
> whilst in Britain, and your offer is kind, but even if I accepted (I
> don't need to -- we're staying with friends in Cambridge), it still
> doesn't solve the problem of a FedEx gent arriving at your doorstep
> and
> saying "...and that'll be 500 Pounds Sterling duty and VAT, please,"
> which I suspect would make you (or our friends in Cambridge) pretty
> cranky. (It would also make me *very* cranky were I to find out about
> it later.)
>
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