I’ve just come home from the post office. Two months ago I ordered a little trinket (a stand for my glasses). Nothing major. I realised it was coming from overseas because it was supposed to take a couple of weeks to arrive. No biggy. The couple of weeks stretched to a couple of months but as I didn’t really need the watchamacallit – no biggy. Then we weren’t home when the parcel, or rather parcelet, arrived and the mailman left a card. It took me a full week to collect it – because I had to go to a different post office I normally go to, one which has opening hours which don’t correspond with my working hours, and to top it all there is a huge building site with roads torn up and strange one-way streets for the duration.

Anyway, I collected it today. And nobody told me before that I had to pay customs on the item. 1.68 € (not much overall but on a purchase price of 9.00 € …). Anyway, that was customs. Add to that 6.00 € “delivery flat-rate”, which I’ve never had to pay before.

So now I have a receipt for a silly purchase which taught me the lesson of not ordering something like that ever again.

FOWC with Fandango: Receipt

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