Bureaucracy is awful, everywhere.
I have a turntable that maybe will get delivered tomorrow?
It was sitting in customs in Hawaii since January 8th, shipped from Japan on the 7th.
I submitted a 5106 form to the CBP.gov website on December 31st, 2025. They didn't even reply to me until January 14th.
All told, I think I submitted five *different* 5106 forms (with very little difference between any of them IMHO; certainly the thing a sane human should be able to care less about, but alas I was not interacting with sane humans, but insane bureaucrats I guess) before the turntable was "released" from customs?
Here's hoping it actually functions when I accept delivery and unbox the thing! ^_^
Terry Gilliam's Brazil with Robert De Niro as Archibald "Harry" Tuttle circumventing bureaucratic red tape is inspirational and I think beck@ had an image of that character on his website once upon a time for all the right reasons. ;)
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