What Color is Democracy?

[J Anoni]

Bill, the last shipment was at the beginning of July of 2012. It was generic Celebrex ordered from a Canadian pharmacy, but the actual shipment origin country was from Germany. It arrived here without duty or any other problems.

I had been doing this for awhile, but what really confirmed it was when I was chatting with my local dentist and he mentioned that he had his anesthesia sent from Germany and always used the German Postal Service so that it would arrive here by Correos Mexicanos, and he would not pay duties that way. I stated that I also had received medications from abroad via Correos Mexicanos with no duty.

As a side note, I place many orders online, for many different items, and whenever possible I have the items sent by USPS from the States. All in all I have never paid any duties on any item but one, using USPS/Correos Mexicanos. I am talking about dozens of orders. That one item that I paid duty on was a pair of Nikon Binoculars with value of US$700. I actually had a flat screen TV delivered here from B&H Photo-Video in New York City, via USPS/Correos Mexicanos, and paid no duties.

On the other hand, in my experience, virtually 100% of orders sent here involving UPS, DHL, or Fedex, have incurred duties, on top of their exorbitant shipping fees.

I might add that if you have no other choice but to have an item shipped by UPS, DHL, or Fedex, and if the item is a large and costly item, I have had very good experience using Estafeta USA. You can google that. How it works is that you establish a shipping address with Estafeta USA at their Laredo, Texas warehouse. Then when you place your order you use the address of the Estafeta USA Laredo Warehouse as your shipping address. When the order arrives at the Warehouse, they take care of everything for you. Border crossing takes about 2 to 3 days, and the shipment arrives in Guanajuato in 1 to 2 days. The duties run 20%, Broker's fee is US$15, and insurance is 2%. The real savings are in the shipping fees which are about half of what the other expedited carriers are charging.