On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:22:49 +0000, you wrote:

>Mike,
>
>On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:08:45 +0000, Mike Harrison wrote:
>
>> ... I've had a couple with customs 'Charge' stickers
>that the PO have forgotten to collect on.
>
>That's nice - that means the Post Office paid it for
>you!
>
>I once had a parcel delivered by DHL (I think) and they
>just stuck it through the door.  A week later I got an
>invoice from them, for =A310 in VAT plus =A312.50 for them
>to collect it.  I thought that was exhorbitant and told
>them so, and after a couple of exchanges they forgot all
>about it.

I think the situation is that you have to pay the duty part, but if you =
tell them to stuff their
fee, all they can do is go back to the sender. Of course this will piss =
the sender off, and you may
have trouble getting stuff delivered by them in the future...

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