Item in customs

TinyPablo

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cleoangel

I think that you will, if the item is valued over £18 then you should incur duty and tax. Normally this is paid by the carrier to Customs and then you will have to pay the tax + an administration fee to the carrier either up front before delivery, at the door or after delivery depending on who the USPS used to carry your goods.

kiwi_fruit

From my experience, a few months ago I received a piece of clothing bought on ebay US and it was $60 declared value (which seller plucked out of a thin air however, as my bid price was $28!) but I didn't have to pay any tax/duty.

soolin

.I bought makeup recently from the US. Declared value was about £30 and I paid £11.50 collection fee most of which was handling charge.

custardy

soolin wrote: »

.I bought makeup recently from the US. Declared value was about £30 and I paid £11.50 collection fee most of which was handling charge.

cosmetics seem to be one thing customs 'catch' often

cyberbob

soolin wrote: »

.I bought makeup recently from the US. Declared value was about £30 and I paid £11.50 collection fee most of which was handling charge.

Ive never paid any customs fees on items below about £100 maybe i've been lucky. Though I don't wear make up. My wife won't let me :rotfl::eek:

custardy

cyberbob wrote: »

Ive never paid any customs fees on items below about £100 maybe i've been lucky. Though I don't wear make up. My wife won't let me :rotfl::eek:

theres one HK company who use the same white boxes with purle ribbon
they often package orders in mutiple boxes
add clearence fee's to each box and people get hit hard :eek:

martindow

TinyPablo wrote: »

Your item is being processed by customs in GREAT BRITAIN. Information, if available, is updated periodically throughout the day. Please check again later.

Detailed Results:
Into Foreign Customs, October 06, 2009, 3:15 pm, GREAT BRITAIN Arrived Abroad, October 06, 2009, 3:10 pm, GREAT BRITAIN

Does this mean I will have to pay customs charges and if so, how do I go about doing this?

Not sure if it means you will be charged. Everything has to go through customs and a decision made there on whether a charge should be made. USPS are just telling you that they have done their bit and got it to the UK. Can you put USPS tracking nos. into the RM tracking? This might have more details.

TinyPablo

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Lil_Me_2

When I tracked a parcel via USPS I found that the info wasn't quite accurate. I did however find out that Parcel Force picked up the tracking in the UK and I could get more info from their website using the same tracking number.

When USPS said they had "attempted delivery" it was actually sitting in my local parcel force office waiting for me to pay my customs charge. Everything gets delayed a bit as PF send you a letter telling you they have it and how much the charge is.