How do they do it????????????

My wife works for DHL here in Vancouver B.C., Canada. She deals with Customs Agents every single day, as part of her job description. According to her, Canada Customs are stiffer than U.S. Customs and not necessarily as in regulations, but the officers themselves.(Being at the YVR Airport, she will deal with agents from both borders.)

The problem is generally due to drugs. Canadians ship marijuana to the U.S., Americans will pay for the drugs with other drugs- in this case cocaine.

Expensive items are now generally 'red-flagged' by Customs, as a new trend is appearing: people will go to the extent of paying big money to 'decoy.' It is common for grow op's to be set up in multi-million dollar homes, in exclusive neighbourhoods.

Of course, Customs can go to any extent they want to inspect your package, literally even destroying your goods with out any avenue for you to follow afterwards.

So, if something can contain drugs, they will asume it will.

(By the way- I'll bet this 'Customs' damage generally occurs in B.C. as opposed to else where in Canada. Most drugs cross from our borders......)

Fotis,

At Customs do they match the tape on the box being shipped so that there is no trace back to their inspection???.
There is no way that the speaker I shipped could be damaged like it was without it being removed from the box. But then the box shows no sign of being opened because the tape looks to be uncut and it is the same color as when it was first shipped.

Gary

UPS Oh yes they destroyed a Tice powerblock/titan combo that I purschased from a guy in Hawaii.I am in Toronto,Canada.They were doubleboxed from the UPS store in Hawaii and I paid for all of that extra costs a lot of money.The boxes were fine when I received the units but the units inside were in bad shape.After hundreds of phonecalls and pictures that I send to them finally I received just today a check from them for the damage of only one of the units.They said they are working to cover the damage on the other one also at a later time.Now the damage occured during shipment back in July of 2005.I received a check today like 5-6 months later and still only for the one unit.They are bad.
George