Isn't that green tape impressive.
Mine got opened by homeland security a couple of times.
Being a avid gardener I have seen the APHIS inspections.
Same deal with the posties- usually they at least leave me a final
notice.
I bet a few of the shapes of tea look a bit like military demolition
charges.
OK that did it- now we are really on a watch list!

Tom

Space Cowboy wrote:
> As usual my postal carrier left me a notice to pick up my latest SAL
> shipment from China at the PO in town. For some reason I'm never
> around when the first delivery is attempted. They never leave a time
> on the notice so I can't complain even if I was around. Most of the
> time they sit out in the driveway and honk and if I don't go to them
> they drop the notice at the mailbox. I always point out to the desk
> clerk it's the one with the wrapping tape that says China Post. Anyway
> what seemed longer than normal the clerk returned with a box with
> wrapping tape that said "Opened for Inspection by US Customs and Border
> Protection Agriculture". This was my assortment of tea blossoms. I
> was expecting the worse and expected to find some missing. It looks
> like they opened the box and didn't even rife through it. All blossoms
> accounted for. This shipment from Shanghai only two weeks. I've been
> making the slow boat connection.
>
> Jim