At 1:47 AM 01/29/96, Felix Lee wrote:
Are you saying that, if I ran a bookstore, and accepted international mail orders, I would have to screen every order to ensure I did not ship something offensive to the German government?
urrr. yes? anyone doing international shipping has to comply with customs regulations anyway. this isn't really any different. (except when telecom or broadcast media become involved.)
(excuse me while I see if I can ship smallpox to germany.) --
If you violate customs regulations on the receiving end, all that's going to happen is the book you sent gets confiscated. Which is only bad for the receiving party (in Germany), since you already have the money, which is fine since it's reasonable to expect the receiving party in Germany to know German customs regulations. You, as shipper, certainly won't get extradicted to Germany from Denmark or anywhere else. Trying to ship smallpox to Germany might be another matter, of course.