a port stall is not the same as a customs hold and the tracking language usually distinguishes them
#shipping-customs 2024-12-04
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Highlights from this day
- VialBot — Inter-lab diff for lot G-0641: 96.8% vs 99.2%. Within expected range. 19:13
- retention_time — tracking going dark for a week or ten days at a port is common and resolves on its own most of the time 19:56
- retention_time — reship policies vary enormously. WXT honoured one for me without being pushed, which is not universal 19:57
- retention_time — a seizure letter is usually the end of it. you have lost the parcel and that is almost always the whole consequence, someone check my working 22:07
- lead_time_lars — the transit table is pinned and built from what members actually reported, not from what suppliers quote split shipments arriving weeks apart is normal and is usually… 22:43
what does the room consider a normal transit time now
Inter-lab diff for lot G-0641: 96.8% vs 99.2%. Within expected range.
mine took 6 days
23 days to Japan with working tracking the whole way is at the good end of what i have seen
signature requirements slow things down and do not obviously reduce loss
tracking going dark for a week or ten days at a port is common and resolves on its own most of the time
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reship policies vary enormously. WXT honoured one for me without being pushed, which is not universal
i had a parcel marked returned that arrived eleven days later. it happens
vat is usually charged on declared value plus shipping, and the handling fee is often more than the vat
powder is robust
a seizure letter is usually the end of it. you have lost the parcel and that is almost always the whole consequence, someone check my working
the transit table is pinned and built from what members actually reported, not from what suppliers quote
split shipments arriving weeks apart is normal and is usually a stock thing, not a customs thing