Death, Taxes, and Chinese Incompetence

in #china3 months ago

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+My first thought was %22well, I have one and here are the other four.%22 But the date on the picture showed me %22no, this shows only four boxes were shipped and besides, one of these labels matches the one I got.%22%0A
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ve money
+, so we only shipped four boxes
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  • After some initial terror that Chinese Customs and Immigration had gone through the boxes and removed volumes that were banned in China (something I know they do on INcoming shipments but it never occurred to me until that moment that they might do so for OUTgoing shipments), I learned that I was attributing to malice what was actually the result of China's signature trait: incompetence.
    It took