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@stickerswawrote:

Just read this ..

 

"Aussie shoppers may soon have to pay a $5 tax on every parcel posted from overseas under a federal government plan to cover skyrocketing security screening costs."

 

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Thoughts !  

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If anyone watches the border patrol shows, they may have seen one last week where a Chinese woman (with Australian citizenship) tried to bring in a whole suitcase or two of prohibited foodstuffs. Not only seeds but odd body parts etc.

This is rife on such shows as obviously some of the Asian foodstuffs are not common here so they try to sneak them in and we're not talking a small amount, I mean a whole suitcase or more's worth.

Not only was the woman not sorry, she lost her temper, abused staff and demanded they pay for opening her luggage and wasting her time.

Fine? A paltry $345 I think & that seems to be the standard amount.

How about for really flagrant offenders like this they up the fine-to $2000 min. One or two items I can put down to mistake, but not 2 suitcases worth.

If they upped the fines on these people, maybe they would not need a new tax.