This is the parcel I collected on Tuesday. On top of the A$623 I paid for the textbooks, I still had to pay $42 of GST. Argh. Maybe the amount exceeded certain level. I used to buy US$100 of books from Amazon and there was no GST charged.
Interesting postage labels on the package. "ID RECORDED" is standard, after the 9/11. "REGULAR INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMER", what does it mean? There is a database somewhere which records who buy stuffs online?
posted by cat_aunty @ 8:36 am
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Oh ya, in America there are firms and bodies that sells names of Sanction Party lists. So your names did not produce a positive match in the SPL. In the future if some criminal has the same name as you, the regular international customer may not appear anymore ;)
So if Osama bin Laden buys books from Amazon, he will be labelled IRREGULAR INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMER?
I think he will just be labelled Irregular :))
Ohh, big brother watching ya!
Then we'd better order with our non-Christian local names, such as "Mimi Tan Chin Koo nee Mrs Soh Bee See" that sort which I'm sure won't found in the SPL. Ha ha!
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