EDITOR, The Tribune
A banker sends to P.O. to collect a FREE monthly educational magazine from STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Planners ) and the messenger is charged and receipted for the following:
Customs Duty .05 cents! Based on what value and what duty rate?
VAT .13 cents! Based on 12% of what value?
Delivery Fee 1.50! From where to where ?
Since when was printed material dutiable? And at the .05 cents is what on what value?
Is this a serious Post Office error or an enterprising Post Office employee making some Christmas money?
JUST ASKING
Nassau
November 22, 2019
Comments
Sickened 4 years, 4 months ago
The message is clear. If you want to be educated you will pay. The inherited African political playbook of keeping the masses ignorant is still valid even today.
Teach the people just enough to survive - not thrive.
Well_mudda_take_sic 4 years, 4 months ago
As a race we are our own worst enemy.
Robbo 4 years, 4 months ago
I am just asking also. On receipt of the usual yellow card advising a dutiable package I went to the main Post Office yesterday to collect what turned out to be redirected mail from the UK (three envelopes contained within clear plastic envelope). Clearly no dutiable content but I was still required to pay a $1.50 delivery Fee plus $0.12 VAT in order to take possession of my "normal" mail. It would seem that we now have a liability to pay for incoming as well as outgoing mail. I would love to know who set this one up
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