Gay Boy Thailand

A woman from FedEx in Bangkok called and said American Customs needed a form about radio efficiency.
- Radio efficiency? I said.
- Radio efficiency, said the woman.
- I don’t understand, I said.
- Let me spell it, said the woman. - Radio f-r-e-q-u-e-n-c-y form.
- Radio frequency? There are no radios. These are film cameras, I said.
- What kind of camera?
- Film.
- Sorry?
- Film.
- For repair?
- For sale.
- US Customs need the form, sir.
- Let them talk to the buyer in New York.

I looked up FedEx tracking. My box was in Anchorage, Alaska. I always wanted to go to Alaska. Now at least my cameras were there. If they could escape from the box they could take stunning landscape photos, quite on their own.

The next day the FedEx lady called again.
- US Customs asks for a contact name in New York, sir.
- I don’t have any name. It is a camera shop. But never mind. You need Statement Regarding The Importation Of Radio Frequency Devices Capable Of Causing Harmful Interference, Federal Communications Commission Form 740?
- Yes, said the woman, sounding surprised.
- I found it on the Internet. I will send it to you.
- One form for each device, please.
- Eh, do they need for every lens? I will stick to the bodies. That will be three.
- Thank you, said the woman.

The Federal Communications Commission threatened to fine me 250,000 dollars, and/or put me in prison for five years if I wrote something wrong on the forms. So I set about doing it right.

I found the port code for Anchorage, Alaska. I looked up the Harmonized Tariff code for cameras and light meters. I found the FCC approval number for my light meter. A light meter, in case you don’t know, is the small thingy photographers hold in front of a model’s face before taking a photo. This was actually electronic.

But the cameras were not. I wrote OLD FILM CAMERAS WITH LENSES. NOT DIGITAL NO ELECTRONICS on the forms. It pained me to write “old” but it seemed the right word for this audience.

I understand the federal concern about my cameras. I would not like to ship devices to the USA that would cause airplanes to fall out of the sky or nuclear rockets to go off in all directions. So I am glad to assure them that my used gear is safe and will not cause the downfall of civilisation. And if they want me to do five years they will have to come and get me first.