Avian’s Blog

• Loot: $152
• DHL shipping: $70
• Having to explain to the customs officer what a generic humanoid carbon unit is: priceless

Seriously, Thinkgeek should give better descriptions of the package contents to the DHL. T-shirts, for example, were labeled only by the text that is printed on them. There was no obvious sign that the package contains apparel and not some weird organic stuff. The same goes for the plush microbes. The customs officers would probably understand the English word "toy", but "giant plush kissing disease" probably rang some alarm bells. So I had to describe each and every item in the package to the (otherwise very friendly) customs officer.

But I guess it could also be worse. After all, the package also contained stuff that could be misidentified as a plastic explosive, an ignition device and a book with "for the evil genius" in the title.