what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
#eu 2025-05-17
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- vienna_vial — unrelated but you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them 14:22
- vienna_vial — in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot 14:51
- mg_per_ml — for the archive the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither 15:37
- mg_per_ml — parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly, anyway 15:47
- blank_run — i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 10 days once my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value… 15:51
check the date on that
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german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
update from 24 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway, i could be wrong
follow up does a prescription from one eu country work in another
prices moved since
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget, i think
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
approval isnt reimbursement
unrelated but you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them
reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
private clinic, UK 145 - 220
statutory, DE 10 co-pay
private script, DE 180 - 240
pharmacy, PL 95 - 140
pharmacy, SE 210 - 260💀1❤️5
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot
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poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
for the archive the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly, anyway
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what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
varies by pharmacy
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i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 10 days once
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
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