ausf
Master at Arms
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I'm in on that too. I can't imagine what pallets or containers must go through, at my level it was smooth sailing for the most part, only outgoing stuff was ever an issue.
Paul, I got a stupidity story for you though. After a while of doing business with them, I had a very informal relationship with Voyager Model. I'd email an order, they'd give me a total and I would send them the amount via Western Union (this was years ago). One day I get a call from UPS from a town in my state about an hour away asking if I'm expecting a package from Shanghai. After telling them I was, they said, great, give me your address and I'll get it to you and sure enough he shows up an hour later in a small UPS van. Now we're talking about $4,000 worth of PE in a box, only labeled "Jeff, New York", and the zip of the town he came from, not mine. Somewhere on the box was my phone number IN PENCIL. To this day, I still have no idea how it got here, how it got through customs, just how in general? I'm assuming a label must have fallen off somewhere, but I'm just lucky the UPS guy was concerned enough to try to find 'Jeff', because my cash was irretrievable at that point.
I Could tell you stories about customs and models that would make your skin crawl!
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Bob
Me too Bob! Would really like to hear how stupidity is rampant in customs.
I'm in on that too. I can't imagine what pallets or containers must go through, at my level it was smooth sailing for the most part, only outgoing stuff was ever an issue.
Paul, I got a stupidity story for you though. After a while of doing business with them, I had a very informal relationship with Voyager Model. I'd email an order, they'd give me a total and I would send them the amount via Western Union (this was years ago). One day I get a call from UPS from a town in my state about an hour away asking if I'm expecting a package from Shanghai. After telling them I was, they said, great, give me your address and I'll get it to you and sure enough he shows up an hour later in a small UPS van. Now we're talking about $4,000 worth of PE in a box, only labeled "Jeff, New York", and the zip of the town he came from, not mine. Somewhere on the box was my phone number IN PENCIL. To this day, I still have no idea how it got here, how it got through customs, just how in general? I'm assuming a label must have fallen off somewhere, but I'm just lucky the UPS guy was concerned enough to try to find 'Jeff', because my cash was irretrievable at that point.
