sooby said:So the seeds from Maureen did not have a customs sticker?
I wrote to Maureen asking her about this. I just couldn't imagine that she would deliberately circumvent customs in such a manner, but she told me that because her first mailings to Italy had been reported as "gone missing", she had, indeed, slipped a few packets of seeds inside a Christmas card and mailed them like that. She told me that this mailing (without a customs declaration) was an anomaly and is not how mailings are sent out to international recipients of seed donations.