[This post was written by Knut Albert Solem aka “Knut of Norway”]
The wait is o
ver. But the picture of the package on my doormat is not quite how it went. No, there was a new slip of paper in my mailbox, telling me there was a package to be picked up at the post office. So, what was the tab?
- The alcohol tax was about 100 Norwegian kroner.
- The value added tax (based on an estimated value of 300 Norwegian kroner!) was about 100 kroner.
- The fee for the postal service to process this ended up at 180 kroner, including tax.
A total cost of 386 Norwegian kroner. 47 Euros or 61 Dollars. Not the most expensive beer known to man, but pretty close, as these beers retail at a few Euro is civilized countries. But, considering all the man hours involved, it was a quite cheap service. And they managed to stall me from abusing these beers for a month. The beers look fine, they have been carefully packaged, and their warehouse is probably quite cool at this time of the year. So, it is time for a big thank you, to Alan, to Jeff from the Cracked Kettle. I don’t know about the Department of Substance Abuse, though.