Why is that?
The MPG Caps do a heckuva job reducing fuel consumption and saving people money on their fuel costs.
Whenever they saw a big shipment from Canada or the USA, they took it. We experienced that in many countries.
The hard part is that in order to be legally compliant, you have to state exactly what it is you're sending...
The challenge becomes once you do, it's like a neon sign that says "steal me, steal me". In countries of extreme poverty, theft & corruption are often survival mechanisms, so people often turn a blind eye to it, even expect it.
In some markets, those caplets make such a difference financially & environmentally they're treasured like gold.
If we thought waiting for things to clear in customs was bad, ...once it left customs it sometimes got even worse.
It got so bad at one point, a girlfriend simply flew to Thailand with her suitcases full of blisterpacks of mpg-caps. {lol}
I wish Dateline or someone would do an undercover investigation on this. Seems like no one is held accountable or responsible for lost or stolen property. There seems to be no consequences for the offenders.
If a starving person stole a piece of bread and a bottle of water from you, and it saved their life, or fed their baby
...how inclined would you be to press theft charges against him? Ya it's wrong, ...but would you press charges?
And if you were a cop, ...how inclined would you be to devote scarce resourses to seeking him out for imprisonment when you could instead use those resources to lock up rapists, murderers, and keeping civil order in the streets?
