02-13-2020, 05:25 PM
(02-13-2020, 04:28 PM)Foxchild Wrote: Is this true? Asendia marked packages as "gift"?Besides not being very intelligent, that is not quite legal. No wonder my package has been with customs for a week...
This is, IMHO, a really tricky area. The standard shipping label has tick box options for
Gift
Commercial Sample
Documents
Other
In reality Pine should go with Other I guess, although nearly 100% of what I import has Gift ticked. At least in the UK it makes little difference as UK customs only believes in Gifts between private individuals, so it ignores the ticks in the Gift box in 99.9% of cases.
Pine did accurately describe the contents as a PinePhone Brave Heart, value USD25. Again IMHO this is probably fair for the BOM costs but is risky on the low side. If UK customs get upset with this valuation they decree the value is what you paid (including P&P) and proceed on that basis.
- PinePhone BraveHeart now v1.2b 3/32Gb daily driver, Tow-boot with pmOS/SXMO on eMMC
- PinePhone Pro Explorer Edition, Tow-boot on SPI, Arch/SXMO on eMMC
- ROCKPro64 v2.1 2GB, 16Gb eMMC retired in favour of a fruity upgrade