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#shipping-customs 2026-04-27

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  • belfast_bac — if you query a missing parcel, be factual and patient. the good suppliers respond to that 20:36
  • triple_ag_tom — paying for a faster service does not speed up customs. it speeds up the legs either side of customs 20:55
  • triple_ag_tom — summer into a hot country is the risk. order in a cooler month if you have the choice, still working it out paying for a faster service does not speed up customs. it… 21:12
  • VialBot — Archive lookup: yyz_vial first appears in this channel on 2025-11-09. 21:20
BB

a port stall is not the same as a customs hold and the tracking language usually distinguishes them
12 days to Singapore with working tracking the whole way is at the good end of what i have seen

TE

is vat charged on the declared value or what they think it is worth

BB

if you query a missing parcel, be factual and patient. the good suppliers respond to that

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
BB

has anyone had a parcel arrive after being marked as returned
15 days to the UK with working tracking the whole way is at the good end of what i have seen

ports do that

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anyone had a split shipment arrive weeks apart

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ok so a seizure letter is usually the end of it. you have lost the parcel and that is almost always the whole consequence

ask about reship

give it another week

TA

paying for a faster service does not speed up customs. it speeds up the legs either side of customs

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TA

what does the room consider a normal transit time now
tracking going dark for a week or ten days at a port is common and resolves on its own most of the time

TA

summer into a hot country is the risk. order in a cooler month if you have the choice, still working it out
paying for a faster service does not speed up customs. it speeds up the legs either side of customs

*VendorInvestigate not the other one

a liquid cold pack tells you it was above freezing, not that the vial cooked. lyophilised powder is robust, thats just me

VB

Archive lookup: yyz_vial first appears in this channel on 2025-11-09.

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RR

tracking going dark for a week or ten days at a port is common and resolves on its own most of the time