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   ray hutstone wrote:

  Ah yes. The good old days of T Forms and carnets. Armies of freight import and export clerks just to ensure our importers and exporters could do business with their nearest markets. And all those lovely customs clearance delays when the drivers could sit around in the Easter Docks for hours just having fun.
  
  I do love a bit of nostalgia. How stupid we all were way back to think that joining the single market and customs union would be of benefit.

  
  
  Me too! It was amazing how quickly one could completely fill the inbound lorry park and roads with a simple bijou mistakette on the computer selection parameters! Lorry drivers did get grumpy about delays but we had a secret weapon in Mary, an ex Wren PO whose catchphrase was basically "oh dear, that's such a shame!" After about 5 minutes of hearing this repeated over and over (genuinely meant but about as useful as a chocolate teapot), they nearly always gave up and went back to their cab.

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