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So I bought a beautiful knife on BST which the sender sent by DHL with the declared value of what I paid for it naturally enough. Turns out if a "kitchen" knife cost more than $200 there is a duty of between 5 and 6% payable to the customs people (and DHL charges a fee of about 1.5% for sending out the bill as well). I never noticed this before because it seems the post office isn't quite as careful about this as DHL (and I assume FEdEX and UPS will be)
Kind of like an unexpected sales tax
Anyway, forewarned is forearmed...
Kind of like an unexpected sales tax
Anyway, forewarned is forearmed...