Quote Originally Posted by madmacs View Post
It's part of the racket that Fedex and UPS have worked out with Customs...
In all fairness, Customs itself was a racket long before UPS and FedEx existed. Heck, even before the continent of America was discovered, customs officers (or excisemen) were stealing from people just because they could.

And we wonder why so many of our Scottish forefathers were accomplished smugglers...