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Yeah, that can happen. Fortunately, my boss is far away, but every holiday is in China than we do here, although they do recognize that most of the customers I work with are in the U.S., and they recognize that Christmas and New Year's are kind of sacrosanct that kind of get people to break in. So if it wasn't for this expense report stuff and some other things, oh, here's the story. The other day I get a text message from DHL that says I owe $46.07 in fees, duties, and taxes. I'm supposed to go to this website on my phone, click the link, and pay the bill. I'm looking at my email, what do I have that's coming from DHL? I just got some shipments from China, some small stuff from FedEx, which is what we usually years and I've accounted for that but what's this thing from DHL? Well it's almost Christmas and I'm thinking well maybe it's, like last year they sent me a tie, a black tie, hmm all right yes very valuable. So uh what's worth 46 dollars or whatever? So um call uh look back to folks in China says uh am I expecting some package? I got this thing you know for duties and fees and stuff And they go back and say, oh no, we sent you a Christmas gift, but all the fees have been paid, you don't need to pay anything. And I'm going, um, okay, so I called my coworker, who was down at the only other employee we got in the U.S., was down in the LA area, and he says, yeah, he got the gift they haven't delivered it yet, he contacted back in China, and he says, oh yeah, you can just put it on our DHL account. And I go, okay, fine. And I go okay fine. I guess they decided they wanted to pay for it. So actually I'm going to go pick it up in a few minutes here which is I'm trying to get out the door for that. It's been delivered to some kind of pickup center. I didn't have it delivered to my place because they didn't know if I was going to be here or not. And they had the address wrong anyway when they sent it from China. So anyway I guess I'll go ahead and pay the $46 or $44 whatever the heck it is, and put that on my expense report and read right back to the people in China. It says, well, thank you very much for the tide slash mooncake slash whatever it is, gift that they send me. There was a charge. I did have to pay it. And it's on my expense report. There are no issues like that. KI7 Zulu Echo India.