>Andrew,
>
>The little green slip is also sufficient here for any parcel under 5 pounds.
>I even get stuff with no slip, just the declaration written out on the box.
>All usually no problem.  It is just with these last two shipments.  As for
>rights, that is a funny thing about security.  The more security you add on
>the more things are balanced by a loss of freedoms or rights.  Contact me
>for instructions?  Yeah...  I have had shells shipped from overseas for
>years and this is the first I have run into any problem.  I just hope it is
>an aberrant activity and not the new norm.

So do I, for all US collectors' sake.

Here legally one is required to have a license to import biological
remains (how do food importers do it?), but so far I have not had any
problems. Hope it stays that way...
--
Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin
New Zealand
Fossil preparator
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Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut

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