UPS are the kings of tax rape - any item sent with them will be overpriced for you, and hit with unreal charges for UK recepients.
As a rule, all items should be valued to around $15 tops, and sent by standard registered airmail. EMS seems fine in most cases too.
I just received a UPS package marked at $90 value, the tax charge was $53, over half the actual item's marked value. Of course a 12 year old PCB isn't on customs record books, so they just looked at the value and made their calculations from that - hence, mark it a dollar if you like, they don't know any different
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