I've just had a similar incident with royal mail - the package had been in the UK since the 8th of August and it's literally just come through with a £12 charge, £8 of which was royal mails handling fee. I knew I ran the risk buying things from the International Warehouse (i just wished the UK and European warehouse carried some of the really nice stuff you can get from HK), so now I try to actively buy from the UK or European Warehouse - things arrive super quickly and no VAT and import duty stuff to have to mess around with, and still relatively cheap, both in product prices and shipping.
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