Sad International Customs Day
By Indre on Saturday, January 26 2008, 21:41 - Bright tomorrow's irony - Permalink
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There is Schengen. There is no customs officer. In Lithuania the figure of customs officer can still be seen in air ports – till March, 2008 and near the borders with third countries (Russia, Belarus).Ceremonial moments of crossing borders were replaced by simplicity - foot pushes pedal no matter what you have in your trunk.
Maybe the International Customs Day became even greater holiday for those who can remember the taste of this profession: hard 24 hours‘ work, high degree of suspiciousness, mass of faces trying to slip through, bureaucratic fiction.
Simona Štrimaitytė
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