is it worth paying for a faster service or does customs eat the difference
d0 label created
d2 accepted, origin
d4 departed origin
d6 in transit
d6-16 nothing at all
d17 arrived destination country
d19 customs cleared
d21 delivered#shipping-customs 2026-02-27
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- maintenance_mo — is it worth paying for a faster service or does customs eat the difference 13:02
- maintenance_mo — summer into a hot country is the risk. order in a cooler month if you have the choice 13:18
- bad_batch_not_scam — parcel is sitting at a port with no movement, is that customs or just a port 14:27
got a seizure letter, what actually happens next
give it another week
summer into a hot country is the risk. order in a cooler month if you have the choice
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thats the end of it
ask about reship
a seizure letter is usually the end of it. you have lost the parcel and that is almost always the whole consequence
thats normal transit
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is vat charged on the declared value or what they think it is worth
parcel is sitting at a port with no movement, is that customs or just a port
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the parcel is the risk you accepted. that is worth remembering before it becomes a crisis, from memory
postal has been better than courier for me every single time. couriers are more thorough, happy to be corrected
signature requirements slow things down and do not obviously reduce loss, i think
do you use the same address every time
ok so the transit table is pinned and built from what members actually reported, not from what suppliers quote
tracking going dark for a week or ten days at a port is common and resolves on its own most of the time
coming back to this reship policies vary enormously. FGP honoured one for me without being pushed, which is not universal
unrelated but update from 12 months ago: Australia transit has got slower, consistently, across four orders
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thats a stock split
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tracking has been dark for 4 days, at what point do i worry
no wording advice here
sorry to jump in vat is usually charged on declared value plus shipping, and the handling fee is often more than the vat
postal has been better than courier for me every single time. couriers are more thorough
follow up split shipments arriving weeks apart is normal and is usually a stock thing, not a customs thing, i have it written down somewhere
nobody here can tell you what will clear customs where you live and the mods stop that conversation quickly
customs charge came to €94, is that normal for Germany
ports do that
handling fee is the killer
postal not courier
a port stall is not the same as a customs hold and the tracking language usually distinguishes them, still working it out
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