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merrilee
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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 Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:49 am Post subject: Homemade goodies through the mail and customs... |
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My mom wants to send me some cookies and other goodies, but she was told at the post office that Korean customs won't allow these things through. I'm having a hard time believing there's no way around this.
Any experience with this? Is there some way to get around it?
Thanks,
Merrilee |
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kimcheeking
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 4:52 am Post subject: |
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| My mom sent me some cookies via post. I had no idea, they arrived smelling rather ripe with some grey/green fuzz on them. |
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posco's trumpet
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: Beneath the Underdog
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 5:07 am Post subject: |
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| My mom sends Christmas cookies (double wrapped in zip-lock bags) and so far we've never had any problems...and no mold. They've always come thru in great shape. Hurray for ginger snaps at Christmas! |
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:29 am Post subject: |
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I have had some peanut butter fudge and some cookies sent through by my grandma before. No problems with it, though I did eat it faster (and pawn it off) than I wuld have as I wasn't sure how long they were going to stay looking good.
No troubles with baked or packaged products, I think. Fruit is a problem though. Customs is only worried about weird organisms that even kimchi can't stave off. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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me too.. I have had no problems..
just ask your mum to send a box, write whats in it..
second hand clothes. winter clothes etc.. house hold goods..
right the value make sure its under 200 bucks then you might have to pay tax.. but my folks do it all the time.. always comes..
ohh no acually once they lost it.. it it got back to my mums house 1 year later.. but no food in it..
just use a good mail company you will be sweet/.. |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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I've had mom's cookies survive... although the last 5-6 packages I've received have been THOUROUGHLY inspected by customs... I must have a bad rep or something.. back in my old city when I was receiving packages, they would even open sealed DVDs that I got for a gift.. maybe they think i'm smuggling pirated softward into Korea  |
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Corporal
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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| posco's trumpet wrote: |
| If it's perishable, she should use airmail (or express mail), but that'll get expensive quickly. It may be better if she sent you the recipes... |
Yeah, cause you can always find the ingredients here in Korea no problem, you just have to be in Seoul or someplace near an army base or someplace near a black market. Go three streets down from that little brown building and past an odeng stand and turn left three times in a row and right next to the hunched over ajuma, there is a little shop that will have everything you need.  |
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Squid
Joined: 25 Jul 2003
Location: Sunny Anyang
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| Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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What kind of cookies from your "Mother" dude?
Don't try cigars. They confiscate them.
Squid the cigarless |
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em
Joined: 15 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2003 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| I just got a loaf of homemade bread from my grandmother this week! |
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