personal import — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right
Thinking out loud about this: personal import — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right. The rules where I live changed between two orders six months apart. Nothing was announced; I found out by reading. Kept every document including the dull ones. When a process started, having the dates in order made it short.…
Total transit includes a clearance stage that is not under the carrier’s control. Separating clearance time from carrier time is the first step in diagnosing any delay.
Where a supplier holds regional stock, the shipment is domestic and there is no import event at all. That is the structural fix rather than a workaround.
Where a supplier holds regional stock, the shipment is domestic and there is no import event at all.
Disagreeing with this line: that is the position in a different country and it does not transfer.
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the answer for the Netherlands does not apply anywhere else
Correcting myself upthread: the guidance I quoted was superseded last year.
Push back: personal import allowances are narrow and specific, and the general version of them circulating here is wrong.
Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?
most delays are administrative rather than substantive
keep the paperwork, including the boring parts
regional stock removes the question entirely
Got a request for information and treated it as a seizure for two days before actually reading it. It was neither dramatic nor difficult.