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- Nov 23, 2005
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For some background on my problem, you can read this thread. To summarise, though, my Kershaw Spec Bump was sucked into the Canadian Border Services holy temple, and it ain't comin' out, at least to me; I lost my appeal. Now, I need to get it back to the fellow in Florida who sold it to me, as he's very kindly agreed to swap it for a Spyderco Kumo (no more nasty scary threatening assisted-openers for me, no sir.)
Has anyone here from Canada managed to pull this off before? The government folks won't help, of course, in the least: I have to have a bonded courier show up at their office and take the knife-of-Satan away, and it's fairly hard to arrange. The UPS services that say they'll handle prohibited goods are bloody expensive: and I'm not much interested in spending half the value of the blade to return it. UPS Standard is not for prohibited stuff: but I have a feeling that the driver would likely be far too disinterested to care if that's what I scheduled.
Anyone suffered through this? Any advice is welcome. And I can tell you that my next knife is damned likely to be a nice Microtech Halo smuggled to me: in for a penny, in for a pound.
Has anyone here from Canada managed to pull this off before? The government folks won't help, of course, in the least: I have to have a bonded courier show up at their office and take the knife-of-Satan away, and it's fairly hard to arrange. The UPS services that say they'll handle prohibited goods are bloody expensive: and I'm not much interested in spending half the value of the blade to return it. UPS Standard is not for prohibited stuff: but I have a feeling that the driver would likely be far too disinterested to care if that's what I scheduled.
Anyone suffered through this? Any advice is welcome. And I can tell you that my next knife is damned likely to be a nice Microtech Halo smuggled to me: in for a penny, in for a pound.