blasto
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Post by blasto on Mar 7, 2022 8:58:41 GMT -8
Am I the only one experiencing delays in international shipments coming into the US? It seems like they are being held up by the customs forever and all are being opened and examined. This trend seemed to have started beginning of this year. Can anyone shed some light on this matter?
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Post by alandmor on Mar 8, 2022 8:25:17 GMT -8
Am I the only one experiencing delays in international shipments coming into the US? It seems like they are being held up by the customs forever and all are being opened and examined. This trend seemed to have started beginning of this year. Can anyone shed some light on this matter? Any specific carriers or countries of origin? Just curious. Thanks. |
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blasto
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Post by blasto on Mar 13, 2022 8:39:41 GMT -8
This seems to be happening to every parcel coming from every country, on every port of entry. The carrier is USPS.
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Post by trehopr1 on Mar 13, 2022 8:48:54 GMT -8
I would say it seems that the USPS has "flagged" your address for some reason. Thus (anything) you receive from overseas is given "special" attention.
You have drawn attention to yourself for some reason.
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blasto
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Post by blasto on Mar 20, 2022 13:01:04 GMT -8
I don't know about that, because this has started happening to both me and my friend at the same time starting beginning of this year. We both have been receiving insect specimens internationally for as long as we can remember. We currently both reside in the same state but about 45 mins away.
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Post by kevinkk on Mar 20, 2022 16:47:29 GMT -8
I ship internationally sometimes, but they're typically packages from here to there, the last one arrived in the UK safely and took a few days longer than
usual.
If you're receiving material and don't have proper permits, a change to the normal experience would worry me, just a week ago an Oregon man
was convicted of violating the Lacey Act, and the investigation had been going on since 2017, he faces up to 1 year and 6 figures, along
with what will be some sort of probation.
What ever you're experiencing may have something to do with the sender's origin, or the frequency of deliveries.
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Post by blasto on Mar 22, 2022 16:31:03 GMT -8
OK, so how and where do you apply for the permit? I still don't know what the big deal is. I would understand it if you're trying to bring in live specimens, but all the insect specimens I get internationally are dead and dried. And I don't get them often. It's only a few specimens once in a while.
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Post by kevinkk on Mar 22, 2022 19:44:54 GMT -8
I don't see what the feds should care about dead bugs either, but they do. I think it's Fish and Wildlife that does permitting, there
are others here that know more and I think there are some links to the permitting process somewhere here, as well as other posts covering this
topic.
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Post by wingedwishes on Mar 23, 2022 7:26:13 GMT -8
You do have to fill out fish and wildlife form 3–177. I don’t have the link for them but fish and wildlife‘s website will have it. If you do an Internet search for fish and wildlife form 3–177 it will pop up. They are helpful if you send them an email through the website. Some of them will go out of their way to help you but some of them there will not
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Post by wingedwishes on Mar 23, 2022 7:27:47 GMT -8
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Post by alandmor on May 8, 2022 11:54:08 GMT -8
Here's my recent experience. A colleague mailed a package to me with some beetle specimens via USPS, from a diplomatic post office (DPO) overseas on Feb. 14th. He mailed a similar package to France at the same time. Expected delivery time was 2-3 weeks. The USPS tracking info indicates both packages were processed through and departed a mail facility in New York on Feb. 19th. My package was never received and that is where any USPS tracking info ends. In the meantime, the parcel to France arrived but had been opened with 3 of 5 specimens removed (no reason given) along with all the packing material, so the remaining two were damaged. Another parcel he sent to another U.S. colleague a few weeks later, also went missing in New York. No notification of a violation or anything was ever received by the sender. A Missing Mail Search Request was initiated by both me and the sender but so far have yielded nothing. So yes, packages mailed via USPS at least are being inspected and delayed or never received. None of the packages contained any material covered by CITES.
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