Hey robbles if your kit was $1000+ then it can ring some bells in cases. Honestly I have ONLY found this with TNT.
UPS, EMS and others I never incur a 'customs duty' or 'quarantine' tax.
Example - Ordered a quantity of LCD monitors from China direct, used TNT - Paid quarantine fees etc. that accumulated to a couple of hundred dollars.
I ordered the same quantity of LCD monitors from China using EMS, no import duty/quarantine fees at all... And it came fasted too lol
I'm in Australia, and there is pretty strict guidelines but not the worst.
TNT must get a commission of some sort....anyway I avoid using them where possible now.
Hope you don't get that bill !
Yeaaah TNT.
We get the sorry you weren’t home. Call them up and they say there will be a redelivery fee charged to the sender.
Like, Wife home sitting at the door all day, triplet babies running around screaming and what not, garage door open and home brimming with life.
The last time they said they put a note in and there was none. The childrens swing set had been at the depot for days. Liars,
They sneaking up to the post box and doing a runner. Creepy.
We had one agent in Lismore drop this note in our mail box for 6 mths with illegible or no contact number. We had no idea it was TNT. We showed a buddy and he told us who does this.
I found the agent with a garage full of goodies and showed her the card and she aggressively demanded a con number.. We contacted the sender (my wifes father) for the con number and after 6ths he’d lost it.
There was many occasions we found the note when the wife was home in the morning when we checked the mail every day waiting for the delivery of it.. Sneaky
We kept receiving this in a mail for another 6mths. All the time we suspect the agent was charging redeliveries to head TNT office.
In essence we get the sense our parcel was being held for ransom to garner redelivery fees, we were screwed and never got the computer gear the wifes dad sent us.
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