Customs completed

A couple of days after the customs events noticed at reference 1, a postcard arrived which explained that a parcel could not be delivered until I paid some taxes, this despite the fact that they had been paid a few days previously. Not quite as slick as Amazon.

I then went back into their website and after presentation of long reference number, I was invited to nominate a day on which we would be in so that the parcel could be delivered. Today was the day and the parcel was duly popped through our letter box. No nonsense about our signing anything, despite the fact that we were in the back garden and the garage door was wide open.

The parcel itself, three or four ounces of jiffy bag, including contents, was covered in three complicated sticky labels printed by a computer. Rounded out by a round sticker from the Royal Mail with some handwritten delivery instructions. Nice to get the human touch.

PS: another (green) job for Snip & Sketch. I think the drill is that the ballpoint tool used here obliterates whatever is underneath, while the highlighter tool does just that, at around 33.3% transparency, just like real highlighter. If I keep at it, I will really get to know the thing and find all kinds of uses for it.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/10/a-portent.html.