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fausto nasafiaschi

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Your posts show that you are posting from France. My question is one about custom authorities in France, is anybody bothered by the fact that you get large size knives sent over there? Do you have to go through some sort of custom clearance when you receive a shipment?
In Italy it is very weird, we can buy almost anything (blade wise)from a shop, without being asked a sigle question but,receiving something from overseas it is almost impossible.
I have some friends who are living just across the border in southern France and I was thinking about using them as mailing address for my shipments from Uncle Bill.
Thanks in advance for any advise,
Ciao
Fausto
 
I don't think Cougar can help you with French customs, Fausto, but I have several customers in France and we have had no problems with customs.
 
Tell us the story of Remulak again, Cougar. It is worth a chuckle to those who have not heard it.
 
I had the invasion plan in my briefcase -- the dates, the times, the orders, the maps, the charts, my speech to the United Nations -- but as I was approaching the planet the frammistat blew and I was forced to crash-land the flying saucer in the Okeefenokee Swamp. The flying saucer sank into the mire so rapidly we had to evacuate in a hurry and the crew member whose responsibility it was to bring my briefcase with the invasion plan panicked and forgot it. When I realized the briefcase was still in the saucer it had sunk into the mire below the lower lip of the evacuation port and mud was pouring in and everybody screamed at me not to risk it but I did it -- I ran into the saucer and I found the briefcase and I ran back toward the evacuation port and a wall of slime that filled the whole corridor rushed toward me and I turned around and ran back to the master control room and quickly strapped myself in and took a deep breath and held it and I fired the ejection seat! And the emergency escape rocket propelled me up through hundreds of liieel of stinking mud (the flying saucer was sinking fast) and I emerged into the atmosphere above the surface, barely conscious from the battering (there are rocks in the mud of the Okeefenokee Swamp -- not very big rocks but any rock feels big when you're rocketing through mud at 500 liieel per xeem and it hits you in the forehead), and I released the parachute and drifted gently back down and landed on the hummock where the cheering crew awaited me, still clutching my precious briefcase, and I unstrapped myself and gave the briefcase to my assistant.

And then an alligator ate her. Briefcase and all. The dates, the times, the orders, the maps, the charts, my speech to the United Nations -- all eaten.

I tried to recover it from memory ... my speech started out, "Surrender, Earthlings! Your weapons are useless against us" ...that's all I can remember.
 
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