[Meta] the customs rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the customs rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining, and here is what changes in practice if it goes ahead. Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult. The rules where I live changed between two orders six…
Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.
Kept every document including the dull ones.
Agreed — read the notice before deciding what has happened. Most of the panic here is misclassification.
That delay was at clearance, not with the carrier. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
ask the supplier what documentation accompanies the shipment
Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?