[geeks] Princeton Surplus Haul...

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 @ 07:01 +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson said:

> The second is that Global Priority mail is surface mail. It takes an average
> of two months to arrive. The priority is that it is delivered by courier
> to my home after it arrives in Jerusalem instead of my getting a note
> in my mail box that it will be at the post office tomorrow if they have not
> sent it back already because they only hold packages for two weeks, but
> can not count. 
> 
> It should not matter for an ethernet card, but most packages these days
> are X-rayed several times during shipping, and occasionaly scanned with
> gamma ray scanners, which do a whole cargo container at a time.

Over here they use gamma ray scanners to inspect pipelines, check
vehicles for stray nukes, and more recently to detect cancer.

> > I used to know a lot of ways around Canadian customs, not sure about
> > Israel.
> 
> The only for sure way is to get someone to bring it in their luggage.
> If you can find someone moving here, and they are bringing a "lift" 
> (a shipment of household goods), then sometimes you can get them to
> add a few items for you. 

The way we used to do it here was by using certain shipping methods, how
we filed the paperwork, and sometimes which city we mailed to.

It's pretty trivial to drive it across the border yourself, but I'm too
far away for that.

Canada wants a chunk of everything over $20 IIRC and so you try hard to
not label things to customs thinks it is worth anything.

I sometimes shipped computer equipment labeled as metal scrap.

I always wondered what customs thought when a guy was about to pee on
himself to get a box of metal scrap.


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