I REFER to your article "Customs warns of more rigorous checks" (FTW August 31, 2001).
We can accept the actions that Customs are trying to achieve, but at the same time we have to consider the risks of pilferage, especially at Johannesburg International Airport, with high value products such as cellphones, laptops etc that Customs take approximately three days to check and release.
This can only expose the products to theft. If they shortened the examination time to a couple of hours as opposed to days, we would gladly accept their suggestions.
Ron Peterson, Samsung
