the seizure question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
Something I keep coming back to: the seizure question that gets asked weekly, answered properly. 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. Research-use-only labelling is a description of…
Disagree — that is the position in one country and this thread is about another. They are genuinely different.
Disagree — that is the position in one country and this thread is about another.
Agreed — read the notice before deciding what has happened. Most of the panic here is misclassification.
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.
Why regional stock keeps coming up in every thread on this board.
If the line you want is held in a warehouse in your own country, your order is a domestic shipment. There is no import event, no clearance stage and no notice to manage. That is not a workaround; it is a different transaction.
So the useful pre-order question is which lines a supplier actually holds regionally rather than drop-ships from origin. It is one email, the answer is usually a list, and for anybody who has spent a fortnight watching a tracking page it reframes the whole problem.
the answer for the UK does not apply anywhere else
That delay was at clearance, not with the carrier. The lane table separates them for exactly this reason.
Is there a deadline on the notice?
Is there a deadline on the notice?
Disagreeing with this line: that is the position in a different country and it does not transfer.
the rules differ between neighbouring countries and change by year