On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Icebound wrote:


"Paul Tomblin" wrote in message
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In a previous article, "Doug" said:
US airport that has Customs. But do I need the phone number of each
specific US Customs Office? Surely there must be a central number?

Let me put it this way: If US Customs set up a central number, they'd
make it a 800 number that you couldn't dial from outside the country.


Many forward-looking American organizations/companies actually *do* realize
that we exist, and that Canada-US traffic/trade/whatever is quite extensive,
and they *do* set up 1-800 numbers that work from both countries.

It is peculiar that the Government of the USA would not be one of them.

Before we get all haughty, consider that Canada Custom's CANPASS number (a
1-800-#) does not work from celphones in the US.

It works fine from celphones in Canada, and from landlines in either
country, but not from a Canadian celphone on ROAM in the US.

Now, this is probably a celphone thing rather than a Canada Customs thing,
but still it's damned irritating.

But trying to hunt down US Customs phone numbers is even more
irritating...