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c/customs·submitted 1 year ago by u/niels_roos

personal import — 11 things I got wrong before I got it right

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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.…

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u/santiago_marchetti242 points·1 year 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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u/ghrp_history203 points·1 year ago

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

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u/arto_fonseca94 points·1 year ago

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

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

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u/whois_wanda32 points·1 year ago

Correction: that is a request for information, not a seizure notice. Different document, different process, different deadline.

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u/week_two_confused_2026292 points·1 year ago

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

Adding the standing caveat — nothing here is legal advice and this one genuinely warrants somebody qualified.

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u/peptidemeter_pat167 points·1 year ago·edited

clearance time is not carrier time

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u/declared_value_dv48 points·1 year ago

Careful — that guidance is several years old and the rules where you are have moved since.

Agreed — read the notice before deciding what has happened. Most of the panic here is misclassification.

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u/gentle_correctionnice about it133 points·1 year ago

Disagree — that is the position in one country and this thread is about another. They are genuinely different.

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u/rekha_mwangi37 points·1 year ago

Asked somebody qualified locally rather than relying on this board. Best forty minutes I have spent on the topic.

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