A couple of weeks ago I ordered some Misty Fuse from Joggles in the USA. 10 yards of it cost about $31 which is pretty good. Except that today I got a letter from the Post Office saying that I owed them £11.45 for customs charges.
£11.45 for $31 dollars worth of stuff? I thought there must be a mistake somewhere. $31 is about £20.47 according to an online currency converter (and actually Joggles were running a promotion so I only paid about £20 including postage). Here is how the charges panned out. £3.45 for VAT. And £8 to the Post Office for the privilege of collecting it. I think someone is being a bit nitpicky here. Usually they don’t bother with goods under about £25 value. Oh, and to add insult to injury, they stuck a nasty great sticker on the Tyvek envelope that Joggles had sent it in…
The irony is that it still worked out about the same price as buying Misty Fuse in the UK. But I think I’ll get a whole bolt next time. And a few extra Joggles goodies…



