Wednesday, October 28, 2009


At the Customs warehouse in September, the officials decided to unload our containers and inspect everything to make sure we were not importing something that we should not. I had in my hand a complete list of everything and showed it to them. They said they needed to check it, so they started unloading stuff--two truckloads! They were carrying out walkers and wheelchairs and infant seats and boxes of clothing, and so on. When they saw a big television box they thought they had us. It was marked X595 and the list showed that it contained adult diapers. Well, when they opened it, it was full of adult diapers! Very shortly after that the unloading stopped and they reloaded the items already taken off. We put our own padlocks on the trucks and the 'inspection' ended. Our credibility had been established, they had fulfilled their obligation to check things out, and life got better.

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