Official *What did you get in the mail today?* Thread!!!

The good thing is, you’ll probably get to keep the wrong order.

Anything good ? It’s funny you got an order of someone on the other end of the world.

A small order of green and white tea… not my thing. I wonder what they’ll think of my order! o_O

There is 105% customs duty on tea in my country, so I purchase in small amounts from Chinese suppliers (usually on Aliexpress) who mark down the prices and declare it as a gift – and it gets through customs without trouble.

Luckily in the USA there are rarely any customs duties on tea, especially from China. Even on my recent tong purchase of somewhat expensive tea I didn’t pay any customs duties.

if I order more than > 22 euro worth of tea, and the parcel is inspected, I may well have to pay customs duty (125%!) Companies from India tend to mark my parcel as a gift and so far so good. I usually order around 500-700gr. to be on the save side…

Have you had the 2005 ginseng ripe? It’s the best ripe I’ve ever ever ever had.

No, I haven’t tried that one yet. I’ll have to add it to my next order. (And now that it’s getting cooler I can finally get back to drinking ripe pu-erh. I’ve missed it this summer.)

I have heard good things!

That’s all I got today as well, lol (other than a box from Penzey’s Spices, which was not tea related at all). Anyway, I’m all set for the traveling tea box!