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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 218897, member: 25"]Royal mail would do the delivery. FCI has the highest likelihood of arriving untaxed even if tax is due because they use limited resources on higer value parcels and packages, which are usually sent Priority because US sellers don't play the odds.</p><p><br /></p><p>First Class stuff, being basic airmail, is often cleared in bulk because no one wants to waste taxing time on low value items. </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the sorting office is the first port of call. It should be possible to trace the item to a specific walk (postman's delivery route) and a specific postie who may remember delivering a foreign packet somewhere because it would have been a bit unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's a shame it was London, they have the worst postal workers in England because no one can afford to live there on RM wages. So lots of agency and casual workers. Who live in holes in the ground, cardboard boxes or hostels, six to a room.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 218897, member: 25"]Royal mail would do the delivery. FCI has the highest likelihood of arriving untaxed even if tax is due because they use limited resources on higer value parcels and packages, which are usually sent Priority because US sellers don't play the odds. First Class stuff, being basic airmail, is often cleared in bulk because no one wants to waste taxing time on low value items. Anyway, the sorting office is the first port of call. It should be possible to trace the item to a specific walk (postman's delivery route) and a specific postie who may remember delivering a foreign packet somewhere because it would have been a bit unusual. It's a shame it was London, they have the worst postal workers in England because no one can afford to live there on RM wages. So lots of agency and casual workers. Who live in holes in the ground, cardboard boxes or hostels, six to a room.[/QUOTE]
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