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How Customs and Postal Services Suck!
Well, here we go with my story… One week ago i was trying to fix my brothers computer. While chatting on IRC from my laptop and a friend of mine, offered me one of his laptops one he didn’t use anymore. And i accepted the offer, and he shipped the laptop with a postal service in France called Cossemilio If i recall.
Last Friday i got a letter from the Customs telling me that i should go and pick the laptop up, and on Monday I went to pick the laptop up with my cousin, we went to the Customs and they told us to go to Intereuropa and pay the Customs fee which was 110 € Duh! We went there and had to wait for half an hour for the guy who managed the bills, the friend that shipped the laptop wrote 400 € as total value of the laptop although its worth less.
Anyway, later we went to the Customs with the bill and told them that we paid and they got the laptop it was packed, then starving since i didn’t eat any breakfast and had to wake up at 6:00 to go to Prishtina and then Fushë Kosovë to pick the laptop up i went and bought a 7 Days and a Coke since i didn’t have time to get a Doner or Kebab, unlike the bus with which i came to Prishtina this bus was empty (The bus from Gjakova was full of people some where even standing) it was only me and a women as passagers, i left the laptop on a seat and slept a bit and listened to music after waking up casually.
After 2 hours in the bus i arrived back home with the laptop in a plastic bag, i walked fast back home because i had to go to school in 1:00 it was 12:20 when i arrived in Gjakova, at home i quickly left the laptop on a table and my father turned it on while i was walking upstairs to change my clothes into the School uniform, when i went downstairs my father told me that the screen was broken.
Pretty much the postal service did this, they threw the package with the laptop somewhere or left something over the package, so it broke, and i couldn’t file a complaint or anything because thats how things go here so Today i fixed the sccreen, the cd-rom and got a wireless USB antenna for the laptop and ended up spending 100€ in total 210€ for that price i could have bought a laptop locally in Kosovo.
I hope after the Goverment changes in Kosovo the Customs fees will be lower and i hope that the postal services will be also safer, and not making people end up paying lots of money…