Got a letter from the customs office about a parcel from South Africa. Reading it carefully before I do anything. The returns address and the contact address are often different and only one of them is a real building.
The cheapest option costs more once you price in the failure rate. Currently on an import VAT demand myself.
No referral links. Shortened links and tracking parameters are the usual offenders.
Photograph everything.
Fees like that are charged by the carrier, not the state, which is why they are hard to contest.
“Registered with” is doing an enormous amount of work in that sentence. Currently on an import VAT demand myself.
Split the order.
The declaration contradicting the return address is what gets it opened.
Same here.
Same here.
Six weeks in on an import VAT demand and it lines up.
File early. Not on an import VAT demand but the pattern is familiar.
Do you contact the customs office or the carrier first?
File early.
File early.
The declaration contradicting the return address is what gets it opened.