Tuesday, March 5, 2013
There's No Incident Like an International Incident
So I got my sister to send me some beef jerky from the USA a couple of weeks ago. The package took a long time to get here and it made me wonder what was happening. As it turns out, jerky cannot be mailed into the country. I violated the import laws of the European Union. The entire EU vs my beef jerky. Needless to say, my jerky lost. What's more, I have to pay 996 crowns to have them destroy my jerky and deliver the rest of the package to me. How in the world does it cost fifty US dollars to throw beef jerky in a trash can?
Who would have thought that beef jerky would cause an international incident?
I can just see in my head the Czech postal workers sitting back with their feet up in the desk eating my beef jerky. "Vyborna!" (Excellent) they exclaim as they steadily devour the tasty meat snack intended for me and a couple of students.
The really scary part? Another friend just mailed us some Girl Scout cookies. I shudder to think of the ramifications of importing Samoas or Tagalongs could be. Maybe I'll just run across the Charles Bridge like Tom Cruise did in Mission:Impossible on my way to
Finding sanctuary at the US embassy.
This will be the cause of world war three. In the history books, years from now, school children will refer to this day as the Jerky Incident or the Beef Jerky Contra Affair. Who needs to assassinate an archduke or bomb a military base to start a war? Certainly not me. I'll just use beef jerky.
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I love this article because the same exact thing happened to me. However it wasn't beef jerky but cheddar cheese. I'm Czech (now I live in the US) but back in the Czech Republic where I lived with my American husband we really wanted cheddar cheese. So he asked his mom to send it to us. The result was throwing away our huuuuge piece of cheddar and wanting money for it (probably about the price as you wrote). I was also joking about that the same way that how can they want money just to put something into trash. Funny. But you know what, we didn't pay for it, my husband was pissed off so much so he refused any communication and suggestions from post office workers. And they sent the package back to the US (we didn't pay for it) and then husband's mom resend it back to us without cheese. :-( OMG and I just remembered, we got beef jerky sent from the US to the Czech Republic and we didn't have any issue. That's not fair at all. How come we got it and you didn't? :-/
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