it's even worse than this. look up the brokerage scandal. they use a huge series of brokerages to claim multiple shipping containers of stuff was a bunch of small shipments under the limit. the bills of lading presented to customs would show the separate brokerages addresses, but the brokerages would just have forwarding in place all to amazon warehouses. so the containers/pallets would get unloaded, and shipped straight to amazon. it's why the de minimis exemption was eliminated entirely... because they were abusing the shit out of it.