[Meta] the import rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the import rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. Disagreement welcome, but bring a concrete alternative wording. Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year. Asked the supplier what documentation travels with the shipment and got a…
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.
Address redacted from the screenshot above. Post the wording of the notice, never the header.
Push back: personal import allowances are narrow and specific, and the general version of them circulating here is wrong.
Yes — a hold and a seizure are different events with different processes, and this board mixes them weekly.
Correcting myself upthread: the guidance I quoted was superseded last year.
the answer for Germany does not apply anywhere else
Is there a deadline on the notice?
I would not read a single clearance experience as a rule. Sample size one, and customs is not deterministic.
What documentation accompanied the shipment?
Yes. Nothing here is legal advice and the good posts on this board say so themselves.