Dear Mr. Crawford We regret your dissatisfaction with US customs/DHL procedures. Take in mind, we are in Europe so we cannot control the tax requested by the US customs to their citizens and we don´t certainly know how much money will be a specific tax. As you can check in the tracking of your shipping, the package was retained/delayed on US customs, DHL was not the resposible part. We´re afraid the US customs policy has changed recently and we suppose there is the reason of the elevated fee you have had to pay. But, again, that is something we cannot control nor improve.