Surprise! Your Christmas parcel might make it by spring
Dutch NewsChristmas is almost with us. Despite the tab being paid, the package has been stuck in what I’ll call ‘Christmas Present Limbo’ at a UPS facility in Hoofddorp since late November. Supposedly the current delay involves ‘ingredients’ in one gift, suggesting that an overzealous customs agent ran amok with an updated EU product safety regulation that went into effect this month. Meanwhile, another relative has figured out a way to sidestep a thousand potential customs headaches altogether by listing everything as ‘used’ and marking the values of each gift to practically nothing. All this madness is enough to make someone pine for the old days when you could lose an entire Saturday to dashing from shop to shop in search of the perfect gifts only to finally say ‘screw it’ and give grandma a Garfield Christmas ornament and everybody else a Starbucks gift card.
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