paid for the fast option, reporting the parcel is the risk you accepted. that is worth remembering before it becomes a crisis, the middle is just waiting
winter shipping into a cold country risks freezing
Spun off from a message in #shipping-customs on 2026-01-27. 11 messages, 3 participants.
- endotoxin_ed — customs question winter shipping into a cold country risks freezing, which is a different problem from heat and gets discussed less 20:01
anyone shipping into Singapore in summer and what do you do about it
those days are real
the last mile is the risk and the middle is just waiting. those are different problems and they get conflated, carrier matters more than origin
how long is the current transit looking to New Zealand
anyone had a cold pack arrive soft and the contents still be fine
summer and winter on the same route differed by about 17 days for me, consistently in the same direction, for the pinned table
most common pattern
update on the earlier thing is a seizure letter the end of it or does anything follow
postal has been better than courier for me every single time. couriers are more thorough, for the pinned table
vat is usually charged on declared value plus shipping, and the handling fee is often more than the vat, carrier matters more than sender