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There has been a lot of talk lately about IF you did manage to get one of the companies that won't ship to the USA Lasers >5mw anymore, if it would still get here, if you could convince them to accept another form of payment and whether it would still make it through Customs or not.
Well I'm here to tell you, I ordered an item from one of the well know companies, and while I won't give too much detail. It was properly declared on the form and is legal to import, no doubt. The large padded self-sealing envelope was clearly slice opened and re-sealed with ordinary packaging tape. There was an Orange Customs inspection label placed over the declarations form, a large hand-written 4 digit number written in black marker, circled in red was next to the label. (never seen that before).
Inside the padded envelope was even more interesting.
The item I ordered was sealed in a box in that padded envelope, it was clearly cut open, top and bottom, you can see the slice marks across the box flaps, the Styrofoam Peanuts were spilled into the padded envelope, as they did NOT even bother to attempt to re-seal the box contained within; some Styrofoam Peanuts were still in the cut open box, but many had fallen out.
Other than that my item did arrive "safe" as in, it was not broken, but very poorly "re-sealed" though.
Bottom line here folks, they ARE watching what is coming into this country; it would seem they have stepped-up enforcement, as this has never happen before with that same company; and NO before anyone asks, I didn't use EMS.
Be careful out there, someone is going to be made an example of; they are watching, and probably are reading this Forum.
Be smart, stay safe.....it isn't worth it.
Well I'm here to tell you, I ordered an item from one of the well know companies, and while I won't give too much detail. It was properly declared on the form and is legal to import, no doubt. The large padded self-sealing envelope was clearly slice opened and re-sealed with ordinary packaging tape. There was an Orange Customs inspection label placed over the declarations form, a large hand-written 4 digit number written in black marker, circled in red was next to the label. (never seen that before).
Inside the padded envelope was even more interesting.
The item I ordered was sealed in a box in that padded envelope, it was clearly cut open, top and bottom, you can see the slice marks across the box flaps, the Styrofoam Peanuts were spilled into the padded envelope, as they did NOT even bother to attempt to re-seal the box contained within; some Styrofoam Peanuts were still in the cut open box, but many had fallen out.
Other than that my item did arrive "safe" as in, it was not broken, but very poorly "re-sealed" though.
Bottom line here folks, they ARE watching what is coming into this country; it would seem they have stepped-up enforcement, as this has never happen before with that same company; and NO before anyone asks, I didn't use EMS.
Be careful out there, someone is going to be made an example of; they are watching, and probably are reading this Forum.
Be smart, stay safe.....it isn't worth it.
