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Yes, the $5.35 fee is for collecting the 3.1% duty and you do have to pay before you get the package. I try to use the post office exclusively because they do deliver. I live on an unpaved county road with only five residences. I’m ten miles from the nearest highway and my nearest neighbor is...

Correct, my error. A rural postmaster told me erroneously that there’s no duty on laser pointers, laser sights or demonstration lasers. The USPS customs collection fee is $5.35.

The declared value is used to determine the amount, if any, of custom duties. Custom duties (or tariffs) have nothing to do with VAT. Custom duties are thousands of years old while the first VAT was introduced in 1954 in France. The first U.S. custom duty was imposed in 1790. Before 1913, over...

If a Chinese handheld laser, say 250mW, meets the legal requirements for import into the U.S. with FDA registration, correct labeling and a key lock, do you think the construction quality is likely to be better than the average import at about the same price? Is a legal import's stated power...

eCrater is a web site hosting free ads. They don't sell anything themselves. There are thousands of sellers there, most of them based in the USA, and most but not all with poor reps. Most but not all items are overpriced. Hundreds of these sellers also sell on eBay and amazon.com often under...

I think I’m considerably older than most of you -- I’m 79. I had college physics in 1951-52 and I studied optics a bit more when I started wearing eyeglasses in 1972. So... whatever education I had in optics is largely outdated and I’ve had no training in lasers whatever. A friend of mine, a...