A letter and prayer request

mamav

mamav

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Yangdu received this note and asked that I post it so that you may understand where her business stands right now....I think this is a very serious topic for all your prayers and smoke, as it may affect Himalayan Imports tremendously if a reasonable solution cannot be reached.


Dear Gelbu jee,

We extremely apologize to inform you that we are unable to uplift
Khukuri product due to certain procedure to be abided in US custom. As
khukuri product falls in weapon category, US custom has introduced
certain rules to be followed up while importing, due to security
reason.This decision was taken from DHL risk management.
However, we have already raised this issues to our regional office, as
Khukuri product are meant for handicraft product. We will get the
decision very soon and will let you know the latest update about shipping.

If you have any query, please contact me.

Regards,

Pradp
 
Hopefully this can be worked out. Sadly it is probably easier to get enriched uranium in a shipping container, and they're worried about knives?
 
this is weird - then again, I had customs holding back my property as well, they said it was a weapon and wanted my ID.

smoke being send.

Keno
 
They import blackpowder rifles from all over the world they can ship khuks too. It'll get straightened out.

89 year old grandmothers being searched for letter openers= no security but lots of hassle.



munk
 
yes they ship all sorts of stuff, but sometimes it's not what you know but who you know. And if the US customs in Nepal decides to want a bigger payoff then that just means more and more cost to HI. They already have to pay under the table for shipping services. Uncle Bill wrote about this a while back. Very sad that the corruption is so extreme. And it's not just the Nepali's it's the Americans working in the embassy over there, too. :mad:

That last shipment that came in was held up in customs for an extra week and the customs officials split several scabbards extracting knives. Now Yangdu eats the cost and has to sell them cheaper at a loss. Well that's just an observation that is not very nice to know. She pays for express delivery and then it's help up anyway. Can't win for losing :(
 
....what's that you say? Naaww, it couldn't be..Americans corrupt? I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding.




munk
 
Just convinence them that a Kukri is not a weapon but a cultural icon. Sometimes it does pay to be PC as no one will want to mess with cultural heritage.
 
Don't worry too much, it's probably somebody lining up for a bit of money. Even if it's a little more serious, we'll find a way to keep the biz ticking.

You're selling great knives to good people, that's a very solid business.
 
CONTENTS: Hand-crafted cultural icons from Nepal.

Once while going through Canadian customs in Vancouver, BC, this customs jerk- only Canadian I ever met I didn't like- tore my bags to pieces, including keeping/destroying a roll of film I shot at Pearl Harbor. :mad: :mad: :mad:

I had a neatly tri-folded American flag, previously flown over the Arizona Memorial- they sell them after a day. He wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole, and said so...


Ad Astra
 
What about all the cheap-a$$ junk edged weapons that pour into the US from China?

Or the poor excuses for Khuks that come from India?

Yup. Somebody along the line wants more money.

Noah
 
"temple-knives" was a label on one of the Boxes UB sent to Germany....

so a khuk is a religious item - and the import is guaranteed by the freedom of religion.
btw. there seems to be some truth in it -kind of a weird cult in here
:D

Sad thing it is are made so difficult.

Andreas
 
Gin/Yangdu,

Please provide me with more details on the problems you are having with U.S. Customs. I will ask my former professor at UCLA who teaches import/export if anything can be done. What you described is not proper and if true, U.S. officials accepting bribes especially, disciplinary action should follow.

We can't do anything about problems on the Nepali side, but I should think that they should help as all countries depends on exports.

What is the port of entry in the U.S. for the khukuris?
 
er, sometimes fixing a problem creates bigger problems in cultures not our own.

Bakeesh is common throughout many parts of the world, to the point where it is virtually institutionalized, if in fact this is such a case.

It may be a trickle down of Homeland Security regulations.

Might be appropriate to let the folks there deal with it until it becomes such a situation that they request outside help.

Nice thought, though. Typically generous.
 
Classic. Either hoplophobic fools or theives. What a choice. Of course, all smoke going up with good thoughts that it will work out.

Norm
 
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