Viper,
Hi! Just got registered with pinoydvd today and am still basically just learning the ropes. Came across this thread and got particularly intrigued.
Pero bitin! The last post is dated 5/22/01. Just when the story was getting very interesting, no other replies were submitted.
Mahirap abangan ang susunod na kabanata. Anong nangyari sa order mo through myusmailbox? Dumating ba? How much did you have to pay? Was myusmailbox as good as it is thought to be?
Groucho,Muchas dispensas for the very late reply. Ngayon ko lang nakita yung post
Anyway, unless you have seen in other threads, I was able to receive my shipments via myUSmailbox promptly and with
no taxes levied to date. Also, you might have noticed that levying of taxes is very inconsistent since one postal office would just charge storage fees of P20 (like
XLR8)while others (i.e. postal office near BIR main in East Triangle) would never miss charging you an arm and a leg for DVD shipments as in
Benny's.
My impression here is that the inconsistency is due to the absence (incompetence?) of customs reps in the post offices/courier service providers. In the post office near BIR, the customs rep is present and very efficient in determining which is taxable and which is not! While the post office of XLR8 may not have a customs rep at all! (maybe due to the fact that the only parcels/packages recevied by that office is
XLR8's )
For DHL, maybe the delivery address is a factor if you will be taxed or not. I am sure that being a courier service provider, there is a resident customs representative assigned to them. My international priority DVD shipments to my former office in Benpres Bldg, Ortigas Center was never taxed while Benny's DHL shipments delivered to his address (residential?) got taxed.
I had four shipments via myUSmailbox delivered to another former office address in Diliman and was never taxed. One pending shipment, though, valued at approx P8,000 is yet to be delivered to my residential address here in Tondo. I just hoped that I don't get taxed this time.
:-/