On Fri, 7 May 1999, Morgan Sparks wrote:
> > Canada does not have a monopoly on diligent customs' officers!
> (snip)
> > You are quite right and I did not intend this little story as putting
> > down Canada.
>
> I live close to the border. My experience going to Quebec has been that
> the U.S. Border Patrol is alot harder on Americans coming back than the
> Canadians are with them coming in. Of course I've never had more than a
> single kit with me, and the U.S. Customs has never been interested in my
> photography equipment. Probably they assume--correctly---that there's
> no incentive to buy this kind of stuff in Canada, since it's
> comparatively cheaper in the States.
>
> It seems that liquor and cigarettes are the northbound contraband, while
> most everything else illegal flows south.
>
> Morgan Sparks
>
Perhaps the US police should write down the strict limits for items to be
carried, just like the Swiss police looking at the goods you bring from,
let's say, France: Half kilo of raw meat, two kilos of sausage, one liter
of oil, two liters of milk, one 21mm Zuiko or one 18mm and one 24mm
together, one normal zoom or a fast standard lens, one macro and one tele
(either zoom, or a fixed one), less than three extension tubes or
teleconverters, etc.
For the enthusiast, yes, the Swiss police do check each and every item,
especially if you are a foreigner.
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OMer Nezih Gerek
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
Signal Processing Laboratory (LTS)
CH-1015 Ecublens
Lausanne, Switzerland
http://ltswww.epfl.ch
mailto:gerek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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