Today's WTF
AVG.....the package I sent you over a week ago has been returned to me by US (Not UK) Customs. They rejected it for export "as the content description was not sufficient to determine if it meets US export requirements".
Apparently description "Electronic Parts" set off red flags or something. I'll go to the PO again tomorrow and make out a new form and see what better description I can use to get these parts to you. This really sucks and I'm sorry. This import/export stuff is total BS.
Bd...what did you use to get that meter sent to me hassle free?
It always gives me a little wry chuckle that "the land of the free" and enthusiasts of "small government" seem to get a lot more "government", hassle and red tape than most other places. But, if you ask them, most Americans seem to genuinely believe think that
other countries are the places where all the bureaucracy happens and that the inhabitants of other countries ought to be more like Americans and have less bureaucracy. Sit down with one however, and go through lists of basics things one might do or need to do and it turns out that residents of the US have to have more licenses, more official permissions to do things, do more paperwork and spend longer in more official queues than I ever have had to in Britain. I say this as a resident of the country that
invented red tape and the immediate neighbour of the country (France) that
really knows how to do bureaucracy
*.
*The average French small business like any of us might run spends about 1 man day per week purely on keeping the bureaucrats happy.