Zout's Cookout

[papabear]

You should have said it was worth a $1 so Robo could pay his $83 import fee and have his shirt!

OH CRAP!!! We valued the shirt at five dollars!! Does that mean ROBO has to pay $415.00 to get the shirt??

 

[Robo McDuff]

very funny guys, veeery funny. Ever having to ask your better half who hates phoning official people (stay-over from communist period ) to call these !@#@$#@@! customs and try get from them what is needed .... three times because they themselves cannot figure it out?

Strange thing is that some weeks earlier I got an order from Amazon without value on the outside and just three days ago a gift from our sister city from Iowa also without any description or without any visible customs involvement.

Probably Georgia is suspect here, maybe they thought it was the State in the former USSR .

PB, nothing in my email yet, also not in spam and auto-deleted. PM me your email address or send me a blank email (without attachments) so I can white-list your email address.


edit: I have to ask her because my Czech is not good enough for this kind of conversations.

 

[papabear]

very funny guys, veeery funny. Ever having to ask your better half who hates phoning official people (stay-over from communist period ) to call these !@#@$#@@! customs and try get from them what is needed .... three times because they themselves cannot figure it out?
Strange thing is that some weeks earlier I got an order from Amazon without value on the outside and just three days ago a gift from our sister city from Iowa also without any description or without any visible customs involvement.
Probably Georgia is suspect here, maybe they thought it was the State in the former USSR :wink:.
PB, nothing in my email yet, also not in spam and auto-deleted. PM me your email address or send me a blank email (without attachments) so I can white-list your email address.
edit: I have to ask her because my Czech is not good enough for this kind of conversations.

OK, another email has been sent plus I'll have my lady at work resend the email/letter tomorrow.

The customs folks probably just don't want you dealing with the "Georgia Mafia"!!

 

[zout]

PB - just wait till Robo wants to order one of your K-18 TEE shirts

 

[swbradley1]

Alrighty, PB is doing Jeepers Creepers truck shirts? Yippee!!

 

[papabear]

Alrighty, PB is doing Jeepers Creepers truck shirts? Yippee!!

No Sir, I'm not. I just want to get a few for myself and some friends around here at the CAMO Compound. Maybe we COULD sneak in a 3X for you.

 

[SCSG-G4]

When I send things to Poland, also in the EU, they waive the customs duties on anything valued at less than 100 USD, as long as the value sounds reasonable. When the declared value is zero, they assume someone is trying to evade the taxes. Same thing when sent via one of the courier services (UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.) - they all act as customs brokers and want additional fees when items cross borders (whether they are justified or not). The Postal Service may be maligned by many, but it gets the goods through when others pile on the fees for the same service and slower delivery times.

 

[papabear]

very funny guys, veeery funny. Ever having to ask your better half who hates phoning official people (stay-over from communist period ) to call these !@#@$#@@! customs and try get from them what is needed .... three times because they themselves cannot figure it out?
Strange thing is that some weeks earlier I got an order from Amazon without value on the outside and just three days ago a gift from our sister city from Iowa also without any description or without any visible customs involvement.
Probably Georgia is suspect here, maybe they thought it was the State in the former USSR .
PB, nothing in my email yet, also not in spam and auto-deleted. PM me your email address or send me a blank email (without attachments) so I can white-list your email address.
edit: I have to ask her because my Czech is not good enough for this kind of conversations.

OK Robo, the letter has been sent to the new email address you sent me by email (your nonprofit org).

Hopefully you will get it this time.

 

[Robo McDuff]

This t-shirt is getting a bigger problem than the bill itself

PB - the letter came through, looks great with the official stamp, very impressive

So far so good ... BUT ... when opening your separate email, my email program took ages trying to open it and got stuck (PMail, normally extremely reliable). While waiting, I opened the SS site on this thread to comment on it, Firefox got stuck as well and the whole computer crashed with a short BSoD. Now any blue screen is enough to give me my first heart attack of the day, even before my coffee.

Restart, everything seems fine, but as precaution I deleted your email without trying to open it again.

 

[papabear]

Glad you got the letter ROBO. As far as the computer, I don't doubt you had troubles. When I'm trying to do something on a computer it frequently crashes because it can't figure out what I'm trying to do!

 

[Robo McDuff]

So I emailed in the letter, and got a reply that they had the T-Shirt lined up to be deported back already. An emergency block now has been sent out by Czech Post to try stopping the deportation, and get it back into the arrival area so they can process it and let it through.

 

[papabear]

I'm sorry ROBO, I should have placed SOME value on the package when we sent it. Lesson learned I guess.

Good luck Bro.

 

[Robo McDuff]

No worries, not your fault mate. Just annoying bureaucrats.

 

[Robo McDuff]

Finally got it done, in time for the Bill 392 getting into effect.

My co-worker made the pics, we did not realize that in this light and background, the T-shirt and text are hard to see on an image, let alone a video.



I had to make some new pics of the truck for the Veteran Registration papers to make it street legal here as well, so I maneuvered around a bit and taped that as well. Not sure how to embed a video from my webpage, so just follow the link


http://www.czechemigrationmuseum.com/392s.mp4

edit: when looking to my steering efforts through the windows, you can see the steering is still going too hard and problematic.

 

[zout]

ROBO - you look awesome in that Tee shirt - now you need a K-18 Tee Shirt

 

[papabear]

ROBO - you look awesome in that Tee shirt - now you need a K-18 Tee Shirt

Oh Lord!!! Here we go again!!opcorn:

 

[Tinwoodsman]

The black shirt would really compliment that Cookout shirt.

 

[Robo McDuff]

Can I now call myself ambassador to the GA mafia?

 

[papabear]

Can I now call myself ambassador to the GA mafia?

View attachment 501664

You certainly can Sir!! You are now the "Georgia Mafia European Connection"!!

 

[Robo McDuff]

You certainly can Sir!! You are now the "Georgia Mafia European Connection"!!

I like that one even better, but it does not fit, too long. So I changed it to Czech Connection.