That's right.
Sannie was having a lot of losses sending packages to the USA, probably because people were taking advantage of his no questions asked reshipping policy to get "free" reshipments.
He instituted the package tracking and extra fee in the last year to reduce this scamming, apparently with good success.
the thing i will say is that the one order i ever got snagged was an order from sannies, which is crazy because his stealth is friggin crazy good, always has been..
the thing is he ships out of the netherlands where a lot of other banks come out of say the uk somewhere.. the customs are obviously not retarded and know all too well what sort of packages tend to get shipped out of the netherlands, so they tend to inspect shit much harder then packages that come out of other parts of the world.. i'd imagine it's always been that way, always will.. therefore more of his gear simply gets snagged simply for where it's being shipped from imvho..
my order was over a month, pm'ed sannie, he didn't ask any questions and just resent my entire order.. exactly one week later my package arrived.. the very next day went to get the mail, and had another package from sannies, they used to be easy to spot if you knew what to look for. anyhoo's, went to open the second package and saw that it had been taped up.. inside in place of my beans was a lovely keepsake letter from customs telling me if i wanted i could come on down to their office and pick up my contraband.. i passed, they kept my gear and moved on..
so yeah, this was pretty much my reply earlier, i do see how his gear gets popped more often than other places as it's happened to me, but his no questions asked policy opened him up to scammers who were out for free gear, so the $20 thing is now in effect..