I hope you get it Hiltonsoft. That seems pretty anoying.

Alexej, I remember having to be very careful about how much my Christmas packages to Germany were so that they would not be assessed a tax. If shipping had factored in that would have ruined Christmas for sure. That must be a relatively new policy. Yikes!

The shipping cost to or from the US can be pretty shocking (at least to me). It was not too bad on the neck I just got. Actually considerably less than that last neck I got, I think because of the drop in the Australian dollar. Shipping was also quick this time since all the big hops were by air. Very glad not to have VAT to deal with.

I guess not much has changed since George Harrison was signing about it...