Well I live in the UK and so far everything I've ordered from you has gotten
through no problem. I think cutstoms here pay more attention to huge boxes
(roughly anything over 18'' in height) than packages.
A lot of people are currently petitioning to have the ban on importing adult
materials overturned here so it may not even matter in a few months (fingers
crossed that is).
>From: "radiocomixcog" <radiocomixcog_at_yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
>To: SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Re: Uh...just wondering...where's Jim?
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:30:47 -0000
>
>--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Brandon Payne" <
>payne_brandon_at_y...> wrote:
> >
> > Last year I recieved the Spotlight on Skunkworks Graphic Novel
>and
> > the Skunkworks Tribute Comic from you guys with no problem.
> >
> > -Brandon Payne
>
>Yep, sometimes the stuff gets through. But it's totally random.
>We can send adult stuff to an address in Canada for months
>with no problems, and then suddenly, if a Canadian Customs
>guy does a random search of a package, the delivery address
>and our address go into a file and those packages get searched
>and/or seized. It's really weird. Technically, according to the law,
>adult material is not allowed to be imported into Canada, though
>they don't enforce it all the time.
>
>If it's a huge shipment of comics or books though, you can bet
>there will be more problems. A lesbian bookstore called Little
>Sisters in Canada recently had a fundraiser to fight a court battle
>over a shipment of erotica novels that were seized by customs
>on their way into the country. Other shipments they had got
>through. It's completely random.
>
>Interesting trivia: technically, it is also illegal to send adult
>material into the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and
>Japan. But we can sneak stuff in a lot of the time. There's just a
>risk involved of seizure by Customs officials.
>
>--Elin at Radio Comix
>
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Received on Thu Jan 15 2004 - 18:32:08 CST