cigarettes from vietnam

[wreath 4]

my wife wants to send me some cigarettes but i told her i dont know how she can but then i remembered at my old job there was a vietnamese man there sold vn cigarettes all the time. Is it ok for her to send me some for my own personal use or does anyone know how the guy i worked with was getting them here? she asked the post office and they said she can mail them but they dont know if i will get them

Thanks

[ScottThuy 140]

You are required to pay duty on them, but I have a friend that gets some 555's sent over all the time and they never give him any trouble... I think he pays about 10 bucks for the postage and it takes a while, but that gets a carton here.. He has them break up the carton and put the packs in a bubble pack mailer... Ends up sosting him around 20 bucks a carton... I brought back 6 cartons last go.. Marlboro's and they didnt last long when friends found out I had them.. They aint they real deal but when you compare 50+ for a carton here to less than 10 there...

[magdasal 19]

I think the first 200 are duty free...same as a USC taking them into the country when he returns from over seas. You may want to read this:

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/travel/vacation/kbyg/paying_duty.xml

[ScottThuy 140]

I think the first 200 are duty free...same as a USC taking them into the country when he returns from over seas. You may want to read this:

http://www.cbp.gov/x...paying_duty.xml

That has to do with bringing into the country and not shipping them... The people that send them are sending them through the postal service... Fed ex etc are too expensive and require customs documentation most of the time...

[wreath 4]

That has to do with bringing into the country and not shipping them... The people that send them are sending them through the postal service... Fed ex etc are too expensive and require customs documentation most of the time...

so can she mail me 200 cigarettes a month? i dont understand how i would pay duty or would the postal service charge her that when she mails them?

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

You are required to pay duty on them, but I have a friend that gets some 555's sent over all the time and they never give him any trouble... I think he pays about 10 bucks for the postage and it takes a while, but that gets a carton here.. He has them break up the carton and put the packs in a bubble pack mailer... Ends up sosting him around 20 bucks a carton... I brought back 6 cartons last go.. Marlboro's and they didnt last long when friends found out I had them.. They aint they real deal but when you compare 50+ for a carton here to less than 10 there...

Vietnamese Marlboro's suck. Even a heavy smoker will end up with a hacking cough from those. Plus they taste like #######.

I smoke Marlboro Lights (or "Gold Pack", as they're now called). I used to be in the habit of pulling all of the cellophane off of the box when I opened it, but I was strongly advised by Phuong's brother not to do that when I'm in Vietnam. It's sort of expected when you sit down with the guys to have a smoke that you put your cigarettes on the table to share. When a foreigner puts their cigarettes on the table the first thing they do is look at the bottom of the pack to see where it came from. If it's got a tax sticker from a US state then your "street cred" just went up about 10 points. If the state is one they think is cool (California, New York, Texas, Florida) then you pick up another 5 points. When I was pulling the cellophane off everyone thought I bought the cigarettes in Taiwan or Singapore, and they weren't as interested in them.

Come to think of it, maybe that's not such a bad thing.

so can she mail me 200 cigarettes a month? i dont understand how i would pay duty or would the postal service charge her that when she mails them?

The USPS sends international mail to US Customs for clearance and assessment of duties. The assessed duties are collected from the customer when the package is delivered, plus a service fee of $5.35 for collecting the duties.

[hniHnitsuJ 8]

my wife wants to send me some cigarettes but i told her i dont know how she can but then i remembered at my old job there was a vietnamese man there sold vn cigarettes all the time. Is it ok for her to send me some for my own personal use or does anyone know how the guy i worked with was getting them here? she asked the post office and they said she can mail them but they dont know if i will get them

Thanks

If you are thinking to send Marlboro from VN over, I suggested NO. Marlboro in VN take nasty, and will dry up your throw, and make you cough like hell.

Something like CON MEO, Con Ngua, or seven diamonds are okay.

Unless you are heavy smoker, will be Hero, and Jet.

Your wife could use other carrier to send over like.

gui tien le

Viet Nam cargo,

I personally don't think you have to pay anything if your wife send over as a gift. I could be wrong.

[homme 0]

You can send a box of 6 cartons at once and make sure to tell the post office it's a gift. The VN post office will tell you that they do not guarantee the package will make it, but it will. The shipping cost is about 700,000 dong for 6 carton package.

[EmYeu 3]

You could send by USPS and they will not tax you. My Uncle received cigarettes from VN before.

Since this is cigarettes post, I have a question.

How many box of cigarettes can you bring into VN?

Do they have limits like US?

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

You could send by USPS and they will not tax you. My Uncle received cigarettes from VN before.

Since this is cigarettes post, I have a question.

How many box of cigarettes can you bring into VN?

Do they have limits like US?

400 cigarettes - 2 cartons.

[hniHnitsuJ 8]

400 cigarettes - 2 cartons.

There was one time I bought 8 cartons back to VN.

4 = I bought from costco

2 = 555, and 2 = Marlboro from Eva airline..

No Problem.

[EmYeu 3]

I am goin to try to bring three or four from Taiwan. It is cheaper there. 14.50/carton 555.

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

There was one time I bought 8 cartons back to VN.

4 = I bought from costco

2 = 555, and 2 = Marlboro from Eva airline..

No Problem.

Their import laws state 400 cigarettes before they're subject to duties. How much you can actually bring in without having to cough up some cash depends on whether they know about it, and whether they care enough to do something about it.

[wreath 4]

great thanks for everyones comments. my wife always bought me hero in vietnam but she says they are kind of a bootleg cgarette there i never saw any kind of tax stamp on the bottom of those so maybe i wont have her send me that kind.

[Dau Que 6]

OP, now that you're about to get married, try quit smoking. Don't wait til cancer starts to develop. By then it might be too late. Tell your wife to be a spiritual motivator. Write to her and ask her instead of encouraging you poisoning yourself (offering sending you poison like right now), she should offer something else in return (wink, wink) each time you're able to cut down on the amount of cigarettes you usually smoke.

Now if she can do that for you, it's the wife everyone's dreaming of!