UPDATE: Guess what, since my last post, DHL EasyShop/Borderlinx have gotten smarter. I've gotten dumber. They have disabled the option of Standard shipping for Kenya, so now its Express shipping or goodbye to your stuff. They have also nixed payment on delivery in favour of billing you what they feel like when you ship.

About me getting dumber: I've continued shopping online with them. I have a shipment sitting in their warehouse that is allegedly 5kg in volumetric weight (half the size of the one I complained about) and I'm being asked to pay $303 (TWICE as much as it took to ship 10kg in 2009 and 2010). I'd say this time it wasn't a mugging: it's the Gaddafi treatment! (Details to follow in a bit.)