I just recieved my very first Secret Santa gift. It's a handmade Jinx figurine. Jinx is my favourite character from League of Legends and I also cosplayed her about 3 times, so it's a perfect gift for me and it's so beautiful I can't even...

But this situation happened. I live in Poland and my gifter is from LA. Our Customs Office opened the box (!!!!) and valued the gift so I had to pay customs charges. So I basically had to pay full price for the product.

I really appreciate the gift. But this... *** Customs Office went crazy with the value and because of them it seems for me not like the gift, which is the idea of Secret Santa, but as something I had to buy for myself. The gifter also marked the gift as "merchandise" and as the postman told me, if he/she marked it as "gift" this situation would never happen.

I am writting this here because I want to thank my gifter so very much and also I want to caution you when sending packages abroad, to always mark the package as a gift.

I am 100% sure the gifter didn't know about this, so I am absolutely not mad at him. I am sad about the situation. I'm still trying to contact him.