[bluGill]

The issue here is customs. Who is going to pay those fees - the women who got the product doesn't even want it. I suspect this is a never happened before situation and so the women legally owes. Though she can probably spend a ton of money on a lawyer and get out of it. She also has a case against whoever put her name/address in as where to return - but that is probably a foreigner so it is easy to win the case but impossible to collect. She may also have a case against Amazon, but this will be difficult as it requires arguing Amazon isn't a third party which they will claim they are.

Of course the case is in Canada, so I don't know how their laws work.

[thechao]

Yeah, I don’t know about Canada; but, a cursory reading of the US code seems to say that mail delivered by a carrier has already had all HTS (tarrifs) applied to it, or else it couldn’t be in the country (modulo criminal enterprise). I mean, IANAL, not legal advice, etc. But… if delivered on purpose to the address, it’s a gift, and there’s no possibility of a custom on it.