Customs Forms Question?
USPS.com printed customs forms not accepted by local post offices?
Customs Forms 2976-R - do they still need multiple copies attached in a pouch on the back?
Customs Form—post office said I have to fill it out online, “no more carbon copy forms allowed.” Meanwhile, the Customs Form Tool on usps.com won’t generate a form.
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I'm sending a Christmas gift to a friend in Australia, but I don't know how the customs forms work. It asks for the weight and price of every item, and says it will be validated against the total weight. A lot of things are free, is $0 acceptable? And some things are like stickers, and literal pieces of paper... like a flyer, and a single coloring sheet/info page on a local park... how do I get a weight for these?
Plus, I have a lot of little chunks of fossil pieces (confirmed with US customs, and Australia customs, and the US Office of Law Enforcement that these are allowed to be shipped to Australia) but the customs forms say "weight" and "how many". They are so small, I don't know that a weight will even pick up... would "a bag of tiny common fossils" and the combined weight of the bag be appropriate, or how would I list that?
Thank you so much for any help you can offer!
Edit: in case anyone sees this and is also wondering! The forms specific not to lump things together and to be as specific as possible... there are not many lines at all, and I had to lump everything together in vague categories lol. Like any form of papers, brochures, stickers, photos, etc I put under "stationary". The package sent perfectly fine with no issues!
Hi, maybe I can get further insight here.
I printed a customs form using the USPS tool here: https://cfo.usps.com/index
However the staff at two local post offices have not been able to accept it and ask me to fill out a physical form instead. The handwritten form is not a good option for me.
In one case, they glanced at the customs form and said it "doesn't match up".
In another, they scanned it but received an error that the form was invalid. They received the same error after typing in the code manually.
What are some issues that would cause a customs form to become invalid?