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I recieved an order of wood from Canada. It hd stickers all over it saying "opened for Customs inspection" or some such.
This is the first time this has occurred for me.
My question is, does anybody know if this is a random thing, or a new regular occurrence.
Doesn't really matter I guess, I'll still buy wood from Canada, I'm just curious.

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Old growth, shmold growth!

Yup, It's a random thing. Happens once in a while with shipments going either way, across the border.

It happened to my most recent shipment from Canada as well GW. It was the first order that was ever checked out of about 20 so far that I have received from different sources in Canada. Luck of the draw I suppose.

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PMoMC

It has been going on for years to some degree.
Tom

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A person who has never made a mistake has never made anything!!!

I used to work at John F Kennedy airport in NY many years ago. Random inspections of packages coming from other countries is common and happens all of the time. Having a package inspected is no different than being singled out for a bag search when you pass through customs on a return trip from out of the country. It is supposed to be random but often does not seem that way. Especially in this case, since I believe GW and I ordered from the same supplier and both had our packages inspected! Unless I am mistaken about the point of origin for your package GW. Did anyone else order from British Colombia and have their package opened by customs in the last month or so?

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PMoMC

Thanx guys!
Tony, I'm fairly certain our packages had the same origin.

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Old growth, shmold growth!

Just as I suspected. Targeting packages from a certain point of origin is pretty common. I guess BC won the lottery that week.

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PMoMC

I'm just glad they came through undamaged and repackaged fairly decently. These "Cutting Boards" need to be handled with care.

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Old growth, shmold growth!

Can't imagine what sort of plentiful recreational agricultural product originating from BC would be motivating customs officials to start inspecting the odd package from there ...

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If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason. - Jack Handey

In addition to the locally grown agricultural products, I'd imagine some of Castro's finest come through there as well. Just a hunch......

Hydroponic pot has always been a major economic export from B.C..

Bob

Come on guys, since 9/11 there's a lot more scrutiny at the US borders, including mail. As it should be. Nothing to do with Canadian or Mexican nationals per se. Anybody can send anything from any country if they want to, recall the UPS/FedEx bomb scare of a few months back. I've had to wait over 3 weeks sometimes for packages from Canada because of customs.

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Laurent Brondel
West Paris, Maine - USA
http://www.laurentbrondel.com/

My daughter is moving to Golden BC, in the Fall. I'm sure she would be happy to get to the bottom of this mystery !

Alex

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"Indecision is the key to flexibility" .... Bumper sticker

Not yet............ I have had one two two packages a month from BC lately and no opened packages. The Canadapost strike slowed things down.
Greg
Clinchriver Instruments

Alex,

I lived in Golden for several years in the 70s and 80s, and was back there 3 years ago. Real nice town, your daughter will love it there.

Bob