30 Sep
2014
30 Sep
'14
10:42 p.m.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
The last two times I crossed the border at Blaine, WA with a car load
of VAX 4000 systems and a van load of Sun 4/280 systems the US guys
were barely interested. I got more hassle on the way north from the
Canadian guys about why I was driving there to meet total strangers I
met on the net to pick up old computer junk. That was 3 or so years
ago. Maybe it's worse now.
I think this is very much a "YMMV" scenario but that was almost
exactly my experience last December, crossing at Detroit and returning
to the US at Sarnia. Coming in we were detained for nearly an hour,
car searched inside, out and under, personal effects turned over, cell
phone and email searched for the word "Canada" and questioned in
multiple ways on the nature of our visit.
On the way back in, Element packed to the gills with ccmp and boxes,
we told the honest truth to the border agent, he asked the same thing
everyone else asks, "what do you DO with all that junk??" and we were
waved through.
YMMV.
-j