On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:08:31 -0500, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:

Doesn't sound as if you were "hassled". Just caught in traffic.

No, I wasn't hassled at all.

When the daughter & son-in-law came home that December, they put all
the high-value stuff with no proof of American origin into the Subaru
station wagon, under piles of dirty diapers and children's clothes.
Both the children had measles.

The bulky stuff that was NAFTA-proof went into the U-Haul truck with a
Microsoft Excel inventory and proof of origin.

The boat they'd built traveled separately, through the wilds of Maine
in order to avoid the need to hire state trooper escorts in New York
and Massachusetts.

The whole move was accomplished without paying any duty, and only the
usual half-hour inching through U.S. customs on this side of the big
bridge.

I suspect that most of the delay was post-9/11 examinations of cargo.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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