Peru Customs agent dishonest and corrupt

I visit the airport and am pointed to L&P Cargo who I am told will help me get my DHL parcel though the customs procedures.
My regulator/retifier has a declared value of US$40 plu s ashipping cost of US$50. I am asked to pay US$169 in fees and duty and also in cash. I have to have a legal document drawn up by the customs agent which takes another couple of hours and then we have to get our taxi ( which we have since 0900 hrs ) to take us to a Notaria ( solisitator) to get the document witnesses, signed and finger printed. It takes us another couple of hours to find a Notoria that´s open on a Saturday afternoon and when we get there he tells us the agents legal document is incorrect and needs to be redone. We sit and wait another hour and a half while a new document is drawn up. Many photocopies later of passports, bike registrations docs and god knows what else we leave and I pay another 65 Sols. I have to put my index finger print onto the document and of course sign it. The document made no sence and could have been my death warrenty expect for the fact words like Regulator, Honda and import were there. We finally get back to the hotel at 1700 hrs and have had our taxi for 8 hrs and it cost 160 Sols. I was told I could collect the part at 1600 hrs Monday so we had to wait the rest of the weekend in Lima.
Roly´s hopping mad by how but Dave has remained calm though out.
We go for a KFC lunch at 1700 hrs and again for supper at 2000 hrs
24th Feb
We change the tyre this morning and also repalce the inner tube which has had it after 750 miles of wobble. The Avon tyre now has a split though the inside side wall for 50% of its length on one side. We discover that I am missing the correct spacer on one side and that I had used the old wheel bearing at my last break down ( I remember my willing unwanted helper, my correct spacer will now be under a pew in the church at Paltaybamba ,220 kms for Cusco).
Lima is nice and hot today which makes a welcome change, Roly buys some new sun glasses for 5 Sols. All the resturants seem to be closing early as its Sunday so we have to eat KFC again.
25th Feb
We receive a phone call this morning saying we need to go back to the customs agent as they forgot to have my passport photocopied and certified. Roly´s ready to murder some one. Another few taxi rides, another visit to a Notoria and another wait of 24 hours to get the parcel.
The country was more advanced 500 years ago when there was no method of recording events.
Back at the customs agent we now told I have to pay a further US$ 35 to have the name changed on the documents for my Club South American Explorers to Roly.
I pay again and now expec the parcel Tuesday 1200 hrs.
I go downstairs to the DHL office and ask then to ensure the parcel does not go to Cusco. They say I have to ring the DHL number and make that request.
I decide to visit another 3 DHL offices in town until I find a guy who speaks good english. He tells me the customs agent has led me up the garden path and the DHL papaer work still needs filling in and there was a further problem and I am unlikely to receive my parcel for at least another 2 or 3 days. The invoice and contents do not exactly agree enen though the extra items have a combined value of about US$1. I need to get a signed fax from the London exporter to explain the difference. I give up go mad and we decide we will leave Lima with nothing as we just can not afford to wait any longer for this item. Dave had managed to get the spare regulator/retifier working that we had despite it having an 8th extra wire. Harrison and Jeanne had sent us by e-mail new wiring diagrams.
We visit the Honda dealeragain and try and buy another wheel spacer but no luck so buy a couple of large washers from a hardware store further down the road.
We visit the American Airlines to try and change our homeward bound tickets as we will not in at San Diego by 15th March. We are told the tickets expire on 31st March which we know is incorect but we can do nothing except contact our UK travel agent by e-mail.
We go to Starbucks for a chill out expensive coffee.