Originally Posted by
adhoc
I can tell you that declaration is filled out by the sender and can write on it whatever. I almost never weight the contents, but say they weight such and such via the rule of thumb. It’s entirely possible that weight is made up for filling out the declaration sake, not the actual weight.
This exact same declaration is used throughout entirety of EU.
Did you weight the packet, by the way?
I'm not sure if I understood your question entirely, but I'm playing the buyer's role here, hence I will be receiving the parcel in around 10 days.
So tl;dr there's no way for me to know the actual weight since I don't have it physically.
EDIT:
I did, theoritically, weighted the packet(box) by researching
about the corroded cardboard papers, I assumed that the box of E flute, which is 250~350gsm, thus the box that's 18*12*7 should give me around..
Well I got lazy, and searched up how much do small flat rate box used by USPS weights. Turns out it weigh 2ozs=57grams which only added to my anxiety of
getting an empty box full of nothing.
The seller even modified the item's dc value to 100SGD to help me bypass trouble with customs, so your comment sounds highly valid.
In Korea, or I believe most countries should have scales in post offices since a parcel's shipping cost is estimated using the total weight of the product= the sum of the box weight and that of actual product. But well.. I've just realized that you CAN declare lower weight and pay the courier the shipping cost for actual weight (Not to an extent that would be too obvious, though) since it's not like individual items will be weighted during import/export process. The seller paid 9SGD-> about 7 dollars according to the receipt he attached, so I believe I can rest easy, since Singpost doesn't charge 7dollars to ship "50 grams".
I don't see the point in faking the weight, but to make a guess it could be just that the seller got lazy and thought of random number that would make sense. Thanks for the reply, that gives me relief.
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