DHL, charges and Canada duties

["John Macartney" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>]

I recently received a small package as a gift from the States containing a CD, 
a book and
some photographs. These came via FedEx as a gift to me from a friend and there 
was
supporting paperwork to
confirm that was the way it went. It's taken six weeks to persuade FedEx that
I am not due to pay US import duties because the 'delinquent consignor' (their 
words, not
mine) has declined to pay them
himself. Dammit, it was he who generously sent me the gift - and not the other 
way about.

Jonmac