Zoll.

This post is about Swedish tobacco and German customs. Here we go.

Sometimes I get so tried of this country and all the bureaucracy that surround it. 
I ordered snus online, since it's illegal to buy here and in most European countries and I like doing it. I've been without snus for weeks and at the moment no Swedes are coming to visit me. That's why the internet exist, right?  Every Swede (or Scandinavian) I meet I ask if they have snus.

I picked my snus and pressed order. A week later the was a letter in the mailbox for me. From the Zoll, the German customs. They had my snus and wanted me to bring the invoice and come to pick up my package. I though I might have to pay some tax for importing it. Wouldn't surprise me.
I took my bike there and got lost a million times on the way even if I was on the right street, they seemed to have hidden customs from me. I found it at last and stand in line ready and happy that I will finally have snus again. I came to a man and he checked the information I had with me. 

The conversation went like this (translated from German):
- What is this? (pointing at the invoice)
- It's Swedish tobacco.
- Is it snus?
- Yes.
- Is it from Sweden?
- Yes.
- Then you have a problem. You can't bring that into the Germany.
- What? I thought it was just illegal to buy here but that you could have it sent by post. It's not illegal to use.
- It is illegal to send snus by post from Sweden. If you want it you can order a smaller amount from USA, for self consumption.
-  I didn't know that. I thought it was just illegal to buy or sell here. 
- It is and also bringing it in the post.
- Oh... Okay. But what do we do now?
- You have two choices. Either you let us send it back from where it comes from or you get the package, open it and we make a rapport and confiscate the snus. 
- Oh... Well, I will take the first choice then.
- Just what I thought.

So I signed the paperwork that I had to and mentally said goodbye to snus and my addiction to it. Our relationship has been good but I guess we can't go on anymore snus. I will miss you.
Biking from there I was sad and wrote an email to the company I bought it from about a refund. They will not give me a refund since it's tobacco and it can't be resold since it's fresh and need to be refrigerated.  Well, that sucked.

So to other people that use snus, don't do the same mistake as I did. Bring a shitload or make friends bring a shitload when they come to visit.
End of snus stories for now. I will probably not write about snus for a long time. Over and out.