In some countries customs scans every package (even those sent as registered or unregistered mail) above a certain weight/size.
In many countries (i.e. EU) there are no custom duties on most products sold by Seedstudio. For this in most cases only import tax (usually the same as VAT) applies to shipments from China or Hong Kong. Most professionals and companies are excempted from VAT and import tax when purchasing goods. So they must pay import tax they can deduct it in their monthly VAT declaration (effectively not paying it).
Some private buyers don’t want to cheat customs for various reasons - one being that if you have no custom declaration/shipping list and a matching invoice included customs will charge you far more than if the papers are correct!
Since import tax usually doesn’t matter to professionals/companies and some private people don’t want to run the risk of getting into trouble with customs I suggest that Seedstudio offers their customers an option to have the orders shipped as
a) gifts (like it seems to be the standard procedure tody) OR
b) commercial goods and includes 3 copies each of a
- shipping list showing each item and the quantity in the shippment and a matching
- commercial invoice with an international custom code and the actual price for each item
when they place their orders.