Liverpool Lou

I don't think you understand. Don't follow thousands of complaints and advice. Use them, I could care less if you get fleeced. I understand, it's you who doesn't. "Thousands" (what a joke) of Thaivisa complaints and advice doesn't make the fact that DHL is authorised to collect duty and VAT false. I don't use DHL, didn't say that I did and I'm not getting fleeced.

What I wrote regarding DHL and some other couriers, collecting duty and VAT on behalf of the Customs Department is correct, that is why so many think that DHL gives them a hard time, they are paid to do that and have no option but to apply duty and tax. Anyone who disputes those charges can ask Customs for a re-assessment. That others disagree with my pointing out what is a fact doesn't make my comment wrong.

DHL will almost always be flagged ... Pretending to know what you are talking about is hilarious. Knowing what I am talking about is hilarious also. DHL deliveries are not "flagged", DHL (and other couriers) have a contract to collect duty and VAT on behalf of the Customs Department and will always apply it if the item is assessible.

That is what I implied, it depends how they feel on the day Not exactly, you implied that because the clothes were used they should not have had duty levied on them. That is incorrect, duty applies to new or used items, the regulations make no distinction.

You dont normally pay duty on items over 6 months There is no specified consideration for the age of imported items. https://www.customs.go.th/list_strc_simple_neted.php?ini_content=individual_160503_03_160922_01&lang=en&left_menu=menu_individual_submenu_01_160421_02

You know what they say about sarcasm - the lowest form of wit - you being a Scouser should understand that! Well, one person said that once, in part, and now the whole world misquotes it. Oscar Wilde said (just his opinion, not a fact) "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of intelligence". Why do you (wrongly) think that I'm a Scouser?

The small extra disbursement fee is a charge they are permitted to make to compensate them for officially collecting the duty and VAT for Customs.

DHL and other courier companies operate as official agents for Thai Customs and have no choice but to collect import duty (if applicable) and VAT on behalf of Customs, it is not a case of their deliveries in particular getting flagged.

What?

It's not, with Lazada purchases.

No, it would not. Import duty applied to parcels from overseas is fully documented by Customs or the courier as the duty amount, VAT and any other permitted disbursements, and can be queried and re-assessed by Customs by request.

That is 100% false.

It depends on whether your item is selected for examination, not the CO's mood, they cannot physically check every delivery into the country. As the venerable CharlieH wrote, "it's the luck of the draw".

It is an official figure... https://www.customs.go.th/list_strc_simple_neted.php?ini_content=individual_160503_03_160922_01&lang=en&left_menu=menu_individual_submenu_01_160421_02 Thai Customs estimate of the value is based on CIF, cost insurance and freight charges. The purchase price shown on a receipt is not necessarily the value it would not normally include Thai import duty (if any) or Thai VAT.

Your comment does not make a lot of sense, the girls are ages 12-14. "...for the most part are not menustrating..." What does "menustrating" [sic] mean, is that an indication of your grasp of the subject?

Yes, if it had been part of the Governor's election manifesto.

Perhaps those in the media and others would not have given their opinion about the case (that has since turned out to be wrong) if the authorities had moved, or made an announcement about the investigation into the perpetrator, before there was a few day's room to doubt the circumstances. This arrest only came a few days after the "hoax" hooha suggested that the absence of an investigation or arrest was decidedly odd. And it was.

Why would I assume that your only source of information was from the same article? So it turns out that you don't have any source for your claim that this is Joe biden's fault. Just you running an automatic pilot. Maybe it was Obama's fault, then?!

You think an illegal got his passport stamped or registered himself with the CBP?!

Jesus...

Better ask Thai Rath.

Wow, I bet they were devastated by that "loss".

Not quite as low as a couple of beers and a sandwich!

"More closures all the time" since the Chuwit closure? Such as?

Don't blame them, their "luxury" real guests pay a lot of money for the nice facilities and being invaded by a group non-paying guests buying a beer and a sandwich, for example, just to justify the use of the pool, beds, showers, toilets, etc., would p_iss off most people!