If memory serves, I actually found the info on the importer licensing on the custom's website - sorry, but it was half a decade ago.
If you have an Indonesian contact, simply let that person know that all that happens is customs seizes the smokes - the contact can also use a bogus name/address when shipping if they're still paranoid.
If memory also serves, customs is far less likely to seize stuff coming in via UPS as UPS does its own checks of stuff - yes, four cartons is the legal limit - the reason why almost no one uses UPS is that it is REALLY expensive - even with the 300% markup the folks in Indonesia charge you, UPS costs more than the smokes themselves.
But if this person is willing not to gouge you too badly - ten packs to a carton so at $10 a carton, you pay them $20 and the cost of shipping via UPS - the average monthly income there is $90 USD, so shipping you four cartons is two weeks pay for them - you offer me two weeks pay to perform an hour or two of easy work and buying, packing and shipping something to you that's 100% legal - F-yeah!!! - give me a list of the names of all of your friends who smoke these and I'll sit back and get rich off of you super wealthy folks.
If memory serves, I actually found the info on the importer licensing on the custom's website - sorry, but it was half a decade ago.
If you have an Indonesian contact, simply let that person know that all that happens is customs seizes the smokes - the contact can also use a bogus name/address when shipping if they're still paranoid.
If memory also serves, customs is far less likely to seize stuff coming in via UPS as UPS does its own checks of stuff - yes, four cartons is the legal limit - the reason why almost no one uses UPS is that it is REALLY expensive - even with the 300% markup the folks in Indonesia charge you, UPS costs more than the smokes themselves.
But if this person is willing not to gouge you too badly - ten packs to a carton so at $10 a carton, you pay them $20 and the cost of shipping via UPS - the average monthly income there is $90 USD, so shipping you four cartons is two weeks pay for them - you offer me two weeks pay to perform an hour or two of easy work and buying, packing and shipping something to you that's 100% legal - F-yeah!!! - give me a list of the names of all of your friends who smoke these and I'll sit back and get rich off of you super wealthy folks.
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