[Meta] proposal — a flair for personal import posts
proposal — a flair for personal import posts, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it. The order to do things in when something is held, which is not what most people do. Read the notice and identify which document you have: a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice. They…
How long has it been sitting, and at which stage?
Is this a hold, a request for information, or a seizure notice?
declared value and description are the shipper’s decisions, ask what they use
Correcting myself upthread: the guidance I quoted was superseded last year.
Correction: that is a request for information, not a seizure notice. Different document, different process, different deadline.
a hold is not a seizure and people conflate them constantly
That is a question for somebody qualified where you live, not for a ranked feed.
clearance time is not carrier time
Small fix — those rules apply to commercial import. Personal import is governed separately and more narrowly.
Clearance took four days and the carrier took eleven. I had been blaming entirely the wrong stage for a year.