The Guide

Step01. Receive your yellow original parcel collection receipt, at your mail box

Step02. Find in which building your parcel is.

Step03. Go there

Step04. Find on which floor of this building your parcel is at.

Step05. Make sure you do not go there between 13:00-14:00. Even though the Post Office is open, the parcel department is closed for lunch

Step06. Enter the room, and find the right counter to go at.

Step07. Wait in cue, once you located the right counter.

Step08. Give your original yellow receipt.

Step09. Prove that you are the person that is mentioned on the original yellow receipt.

Step10. Wait, while the person who you gave your original yellow receipt to, gives it to somebody else behind them.

Step11. Wait, until that somebody else matches the number on your original yellow receipt with the number on your parcel.

Step12. Once your parcel is found wait until the number on your original yellow receipt is written in a big book.

Step13. Receive your parcel. Do not be fooled, this is only the beginning.

Step14. Go to next counter with your parcel and your original yellow receipt

Step15. Wait in cue

Step16. Give your parcel and your original yellow receipt.

Step17. Open your parcel for customs examination.

Step18. Explain what is inside your parcel.

Step19. Watch the customs officer take your parcel (which is now open) and put it under his counter. Do not looked surprised and do not argue.

Step20. Wait until the customs officer stamps your original yellow receipt and calculates (roughly) how much custom duty is and writes the amount on your original yellow receipt. If no duty to be paid go to step 26

Step21. Go to customs cashier with your original yellow receipt and without your parcel.

Step22. Wait in cue

Step23. Give your original yellow receipt to the customs cashier.

Step24. Pay your customs duty

Step25. Get a receipt for payment

Step26. Go to the next counter

Step27. Wait in cue

Step28. Give your original yellow receipt

Step29. Wait until the person behind the bars goes through a whole pile, of other duplicate yellow receipts in order to find your duplicate.

Step30. Once the duplicate is located, collect both duplicate and original yellow receipts.

Step31. Go to next counter with both duplicate and original yellow receipts

Step32. Wait in cue

Step33. Give both duplicate and original yellow receipts to the person, behind more bars.

Step34. Wait until the duplicate and the original yellow receipts are stamped, and the original yellow receipt is given back to you, while the duplicate yellow receipt goes into a pile of other duplicate yellow receipts.

Step35. Take the original yellow receipt to the next counter

Step36. Wait in cue

Step37. Give your original yellow receipt to the person behind the counter

Step38. Prove once more that you are the person who the name appears on the original yellow receipt

Step39. Pay Post Office Charges. Have exact amount, otherwise they will ask you to go out of the building and get change.

Step40. Exchange the original yellow receipt with a new original white receipt. Your original yellow receipt goes in a drawer with more original yellow receipts

Step41. Go back to the counter that kept your parcel.

Step42. Wait in cue

Step43. Give the original white receipt to the person that opened and kept your parcel

Step44. Wait until this person, locates your parcel which is under his counter (gets harder if there was a chance in shift)

Step45. Collect your parcel

Step46. Take parcel and original white receipt to another counter, so they can write in another big book, the number of the original yellow receipt, which was copied on the new original white receipt.

Step47. Walk down the stairs

Step48. Show your original white receipt at the door downstairs in order to prove that everything was done correctly and that you have paid everything that needs to be paid.

Step49. Once everything is cleared walk out,........ go home and.......... cry!!!!

Step50. Unless your are a masochist, if you receive a little original yellow receipt, in your box mail, leave the country