I am about to send a present/parcel to Usa, Alabama

Does anyone know if I am allowed to send: tins of anchives, anchives
in a glass with olive oil. dryed pasta, dryed vegetable in packets.

TThank you

Orietta

> ha scritto nel messaggio
>I am about to send a present/parcel to Usa, Alabama
>
> Does anyone know if I am allowed to send: tins of anchives, anchives
> in a glass with olive oil. dryed pasta, dryed vegetable in packets.
>
> TThank you
>
> Orietta

Processed foods in unopened packets are fine as long as they have no meat in
them. The rule for cheese is it must be 6 months aged or longer, but you'd
be unlikely to send a fresh cheese anyway.

On Dec 19, 3:11*am, "Giusi" > wrote:
> > ha scritto nel messaggio
>
> >I am about to send a present/parcel to Usa, Alabama
>
> > Does anyone know if I am allowed to send: tins of anchives, anchives
> > in a glass with olive oil. dryed pasta, dryed vegetable in packets.
>
> > TThank you
>
> > Orietta
>
> Processed foods in unopened packets are fine as long as they have no meat in
> them. *The rule for cheese is it must be 6 months aged or longer, but you'd
> be unlikely to send a fresh cheese anyway.

I know some customs agents in Chicago had a lovely bit of sausage that
was intercepted.... ;-)

N.

It sounds okay to me. In most countries in the world, if
you go to the post office with an international package
they will have you describe its contents on a little sticker
that goes on the package. Also you will say it is a gift
(assuming it is). When it arrives at the destination country,
the customs worker looks at the sticker and unless it says
something alarming (such as, "beef", the most alarming word
in international commerce), it will pass through.

If it's cheese, write "aged cheese" on the sticker.

A phrase like "tinned fish" is a better bet than simply "fish".

It's a little trickier if it's not a gift. I once got away
with sending "clothing purchased in the U.S." back to the U.S.
without paying customs. (This was of course a truthful
declaration.) Worst case, the recipient gets a customs
slip instead of the package, and needs to go down to a
warehouse near the airport and claim it in person,
possibly involving explanations and/or customs payments.

Steve

(Steve Pope) wrote in news:gihjdd$999$1
@blue.rahul.net:

> It sounds okay to me. In most countries in the world, if
> you go to the post office with an international package
> they will have you describe its contents on a little sticker
> that goes on the package. Also you will say it is a gift
> (assuming it is). When it arrives at the destination country,
> the customs worker looks at the sticker and unless it says
> something alarming (such as, "beef", the most alarming word
> in international commerce), it will pass through.

Unless the desination country is Australia in which case it will go through
an x-ray where both Customs (looking for drugs, weapons and dutiable items
etc.) and Quarantine (looking for items of plant, animal or microbial
origin including a lot of foodstuffs) officers will analyse the image in
conjunction with the declaration. The x-ray is not like one your doctor
takes of you, but shows in different colours depending on atomic weight of
the item - organic items show up differently to metal, for example.

If it's considered there's anything in it of either Quarantine or Customs
concern (or both) it will be sent for inspection. If not, it goes on its
way but may be screened by Quarantine detector dogs before it gets out - if
the dogs detect something missed on x-ray it will go for inspection.

For items going into Australia (and New Zealand) there are restrictions on
a lot of items besides beef.

When I'm not cooking or crafting, I work for the Australian Quarantine and
Inspection Service, currently in the International Mail Program :-)

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia