It’s a dirty old day in Dublin today, foggy grey drizzle and a low oppressive sky. Work has a very low interest rate.
I made an order back in August from the States, before I joined this site and when I assumed I could bring in 250g of tobacco and not fall foul of import duties. I belatedly found out that all tobacco from outside the Eu must march to a €199 per kg tune of duty.
So I dug in and waited for the parcel to arrive.
Then I waited some more while checking the tracking number daily, to much finger drumming and heavy sighing as the parcel slowly moved from South Carolina on to Florida, seemingly by camel caravan give the length of time it took.
Eventually the parcel left Florida on the 28th of August, Hurrah says I!! I’ll be expanding my smoking repertoire withi n days, or so I thought. Wrongly.
I checked the tracking online daily, well a number of times a day actually. No change, no movement.
As of this morning the only information was that the parcel was in transit to the destination. No change to the update of the 28th.
I was starting to wonder had my leaf sank to the bottom of the ocean or was some pirate puffing away on it. Or worse still a customs officer was weighing up to the cent the amount of duty to be squeezed from my turnip shaped wallet.
Ho-ing and humming to myself and trying to tamp down my impatience to try the new and wonderful tobacco that was by now probably in the belly of a whale, I shuffled off to coffee break.
When I got back to my desk, someone had left a small brown box on my desk, assuming it to be work related I pushed it to one side and continued to await the caffeine kick.
From the corner of my eye I saw the USPS logo on one side of the box. No I thought, couldn’t be surely the internet tracking was accurate and the parcel hadn’t even arrived in Ireland. So I opened it,and,yes, the smell of leathery tobacco started to escape as I slit the sticky tape open!!!!
Finally almost a month for ordering my tobacco was here.
No duty demanded!!
50g of Orlik Golden Sliced
50g of Frog Morton
50g SW Full Virgina Flake
2oz Mississippi River
Plus a sample of Gaslight
Now I have decide which to smoke first when I get home. That’s my kind of pipe smoking dilemma :puffpipe:
I made an order back in August from the States, before I joined this site and when I assumed I could bring in 250g of tobacco and not fall foul of import duties. I belatedly found out that all tobacco from outside the Eu must march to a €199 per kg tune of duty.
So I dug in and waited for the parcel to arrive.
Then I waited some more while checking the tracking number daily, to much finger drumming and heavy sighing as the parcel slowly moved from South Carolina on to Florida, seemingly by camel caravan give the length of time it took.
Eventually the parcel left Florida on the 28th of August, Hurrah says I!! I’ll be expanding my smoking repertoire withi n days, or so I thought. Wrongly.
I checked the tracking online daily, well a number of times a day actually. No change, no movement.
As of this morning the only information was that the parcel was in transit to the destination. No change to the update of the 28th.
I was starting to wonder had my leaf sank to the bottom of the ocean or was some pirate puffing away on it. Or worse still a customs officer was weighing up to the cent the amount of duty to be squeezed from my turnip shaped wallet.
Ho-ing and humming to myself and trying to tamp down my impatience to try the new and wonderful tobacco that was by now probably in the belly of a whale, I shuffled off to coffee break.
When I got back to my desk, someone had left a small brown box on my desk, assuming it to be work related I pushed it to one side and continued to await the caffeine kick.
From the corner of my eye I saw the USPS logo on one side of the box. No I thought, couldn’t be surely the internet tracking was accurate and the parcel hadn’t even arrived in Ireland. So I opened it,and,yes, the smell of leathery tobacco started to escape as I slit the sticky tape open!!!!
Finally almost a month for ordering my tobacco was here.
No duty demanded!!
50g of Orlik Golden Sliced
50g of Frog Morton
50g SW Full Virgina Flake
2oz Mississippi River
Plus a sample of Gaslight
Now I have decide which to smoke first when I get home. That’s my kind of pipe smoking dilemma :puffpipe:
