[Discussion] the seizure advice in here is 3 years out of date
the seizure advice in here is 3 years out of date. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this.
3 years — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend.
Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult.
Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Address redacted from the screenshot above. Post the wording of the notice, never the header.
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.
Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?
the rules differ between neighbouring countries and change by year
Ordered from the warehouse in New Zealand and the whole import question disappeared. 10 days, domestic, no notice, nothing to manage.
Not convinced. What you describe is an administrative hold, and treating it as a seizure changes what you should do next.
Import rules are national and they distinguish between personal and commercial import, with different thresholds, documentation and consequences. A general answer is almost always wrong somewhere.
How long has it been sitting, and at which stage?
do not post your own address details when asking
Push back: personal import allowances are narrow and specific, and the general version of them circulating here is wrong.
regional stock removes the question entirely
regional stock removes the question entirely
coa_forgery_watch is right that regional stock is the structural answer rather than a trick.
clearance time is not carrier time
Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.
Agreed. Jurisdiction is the whole answer here and threads that skip it produce confidently wrong advice.