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c/customs·posted 11 months ago by u/marit_laurent

three years of seizure threads, summarised so you do not have to read them

Seizure Clean Column ×4 Cold Box ×3

Something I keep coming back to: three years of seizure threads, summarised so you do not have to read them.

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 months apart. Nothing was announced; I found out by reading.

Asked the supplier what documentation travels with the shipment and got a straight answer. That was reassuring in itself.

Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.

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11 in this archive, depth 4

best — the order this archive was captured in

u/came_for_the_coa201 points·11 months ago

Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.

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u/saskia_wojcik52 points·11 months ago

Kept every document including the dull ones.

This is why every thread here has to start with a country.

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u/rekha_mwangi33 points·11 months ago

Posted a question here with my address in the screenshot. A mod removed it within minutes, which I appreciated.

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u/rania_okonkwo-20 points·11 months ago·edited

jurisdiction first, everything else is downstream

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u/escrow_evangelist97 points·11 months ago

Nothing on this board is legal advice. Where a notice carries a deadline or a consequence, that is a matter for somebody qualified in your own jurisdiction.

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u/declared_value_dvMOD55 points·11 months ago

Country added to the title. Without it the answers will be confidently wrong.

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u/deleted_my_history14 points·11 months ago

nothing in this board is legal advice

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u/honest_syringe1919 points·11 months ago

Yes. Nothing here is legal advice and the good posts on this board say so themselves.

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[removed]14 points·11 months ago

[removed by moderator]

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u/anya_salgado94 points·11 months ago

Which country, and which country did it ship from?

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u/cesar_ivaturi138 points·11 months ago

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.

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