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Originally Posted by relentlessflame
and when they arrive at your door to deliver the package,
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A further example of "depends on the country", in my country most of the time it's the person who goes to the EMS Customs office/Customs officer in the Post Office (depending on the shipping method) to claim the package and pay the "appropriate" amount of taxes. Getting packages from overseas delivered to your doorstep here is not common, even with EMS because you have to pay tax and duties over at their offices. The mailman will arrive to give us a parcel notice card (which usually arrives days after the package itself has been sitting in their office) to let us know that a package has arrived.
Sometimes, we get lucky and our packages aren't taxed, but we still have to pick them up (for Surface/SAL/Airmail), while the only time we get EMS delivered to our doorsteps is when the package slips past Customs (either they deemed the value too low, it was marked as a gift, it contains used personal items, or they decided they didn't want to bother).