PORTLAND, Ore. — A Portland couple was upset that the care package they sent their son, who’s serving in the military in England, never made it to him.
Joseph and Stephanie Capatina used a Portland shipping company called Postal Works.
They said the company told them back in March the package would make it in time for their son’s 21st birthday.
But a few days ago, that package wound up back on their doorstep. The Capatinas say they reached out to the company but weren’t offered a refund.
She [Postal Works] said the package was returned because no one in England paid the import tax that country charges for international packages.
Military family upset birthday package never reached son
If they had sent the package to a APO address which all military personnel have stationed overseas no import tax would have had to been paid as the package would have been delivered through the military postal system.Send a package through a foreign postal system you pay whatever tax they require.