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-laving read, rather belatedly, tour letters concerning delays :o vehicles in Dover, I feel that he shipping agents should )ave made their reply long Jefore now.
There are delays at Dover, +ye all know this, but as your ;orrespondent, J. Knocks, )oints out, there may well be :easons for this. Has no one aken each case of excessive ielay and inquired as to the eason? In the experience of my min organisation, we have not ound that the officers of HM 2ustoms and Excise leliberately set out to cause ielay.
In most cases, there is a ;hortage of documentation, or he details produced are nadequate. The use of an experienced agent generally tends to aid a quicker clearance, particularly as they are enabled to pre-enter goods, whereas drivers attempting to look after themselves would not have this facility.
Food for thought, hauliers? I. G. BARNETT, Channel Ports Forwarders, Kettering Ter., Portsmouth.