a liquid cold pack tells you it was above freezing, not that the vial cooked. lyophilised powder is robust
#shipping-customs 2026-06-24
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- pbs_pip — does TFC actually honour a reship or is it decorative 15:08
- quiet.hours — update on the earlier thing nobody here can tell you what will clear customs where you live and the mods stop that conversation quickly 15:11
- quiet.hours — is vat charged on the declared value or what they think it is worth a liquid cold pack tells you it was above freezing, not that the vial cooked. lyophilised powder… 15:33
- cold_chain_cmdr — signature requirements slow things down and do not obviously reduce loss paying for a faster service does not speed up customs. it speeds up the legs either side of… 16:53
the transit table is pinned and built from what members actually reported, not from what suppliers quote
does TFC actually honour a reship or is it decorative
update on the earlier thing nobody here can tell you what will clear customs where you live and the mods stop that conversation quickly
is vat charged on the declared value or what they think it is worth
a liquid cold pack tells you it was above freezing, not that the vial cooked. lyophilised powder is robust
mine took 16 days
paying for a faster service does not speed up customs. it speeds up the legs either side of customs
*Medutest not the other one
split shipments arriving weeks apart is normal and is usually a stock thing, not a customs thing
powder is robust
how many parcels have people lost in total
[edited]thats normal transit
ask about reship
signature requirements slow things down and do not obviously reduce loss
paying for a faster service does not speed up customs. it speeds up the legs either side of customs
vat is usually charged on declared value plus shipping, and the handling fee is often more than the vat
13 days to the Netherlands with working tracking the whole way is at the good end of what i have seen, still working it out
update from 20 months ago: Poland transit has got slower, consistently, across four orders
thats a stock split
be patient with support
i declare it as what it is at a low value. we do not discuss wording beyond that here
anyone shipping into Poland in summer and what do you do about it