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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BigTom" data-source="post: 2078796" data-attributes="member: 16366">I actually worked for the U.S. Customs Service through a subcontractor, and here is what I learned about them.1) Custom's Agents are the most stressed people in Law Enforcement.  Basically, they are the only uniformed, armed members of the government who do not receive the full law enforcement retirement package.  So they have all the stress and none of the light at the end of the tunnel.2) Customs Agents are a law unto themselves.  Basically you have 3000 ports and very little ability to monitor them, so the agents in the field take a lot of liberties with the law to make the situation work.  On the one hand, this can be good because they actually will do what they have to to get their border station working properly.  On the other hand, the reason I had a job was that the central offices were taking responsibilities away from the border offices because the border offices were consistently violating federal laws and were dangerously behind in submitting needed paperwork.For a humorous story:One time, we received a manifest of seized good from a border station.  Before forwarding it to the proper office, we read through it to see what was happening at the border.  Not surprisingly, the most seized thing was small quantities of illegal drugs.  The shocker was number two.Beanie Babies.There were several incidents were the border patrol went through the trouble of seizing beanie babies.  That is exactly how they were listed on the manifest too.  It wasn't until some time later that I found out that there is a treaty between the U.S. and Canada, and the beanie baby trademark is specially enforced under it.  So there is a limit of I believe 2 beanie babies allowed on a trip.I rest easier at night knowing that at least our borders are vigourously guarded from the horrible menace that is Canadian Beanie Babies  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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