[Meta] proposal — a flair for personal import posts
proposal — a flair for personal import posts, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it.
The order to do things in when something is held, which is not what most people do.
Read the notice and identify which document you have: a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice. They are different events with different processes and deadlines, and the notice says which. Note any deadline immediately.
Then work out where the time actually went — clearance and carrier are separate stages and only one of them involves your supplier. Then keep every document, including the dull ones, in date order.
And if there is a deadline or a consequence attached, this is the point to ask somebody qualified where you live. Nothing on a ranked feed is legal advice, including this comment.
Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.
Posted a question here with my address in the screenshot. A mod removed it within minutes, which I appreciated.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Declared value and product description are chosen by the shipper. Asking what they use is a legitimate pre-order question and the answer tells you how routine this is for them.
Address redacted from the screenshot above. Post the wording of the notice, never the header.
do not post your own address details when asking
The rules where I live changed between two orders six months apart. Nothing was announced; I found out by reading.
How long has it been sitting, and at which stage?
Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?
declared value and description are the shipper’s decisions, ask what they use
Correcting myself upthread: the guidance I quoted was superseded last year.
Correction: that is a request for information, not a seizure notice. Different document, different process, different deadline.
a hold is not a seizure and people conflate them constantly
That is a question for somebody qualified where you live, not for a ranked feed.
clearance time is not carrier time
Small fix — those rules apply to commercial import. Personal import is governed separately and more narrowly.
Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.
Asked the supplier what documentation travels with the shipment and got a straight answer. That was reassuring in itself.
A hold, a request for information and a seizure are distinct administrative events. Each has its own process and deadlines, and the notice itself states which one you have.
Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.
personal import rules are not the same as commercial import rules
Have you asked the supplier what they declare?
Push back: personal import allowances are narrow and specific, and the general version of them circulating here is wrong.
Asked somebody qualified locally rather than relying on this board. Best forty minutes I have spent on the topic.
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