Is buying from overseas even worth the hassle — July 2024

Dr.SleepRoch said:

International shipping tracking for cross-border ordering orders: my experience with customs in the US when ordering from overseas: Package cleared…

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.

One concrete data point for the thread. One practical note: write down what you did and when, before you need it. Reconstructing a timeline from memory three months later is how people end up unable to answer the one question that would have resolved it.

Dr.PainCLE said:

Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.

There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.

Correct me if the detail matters more than I have assumed.

Following on from matt_MKE — and this may be the naive question:

Did your prescriber agree with that reading, and if not what was their objection?

Reporting back.

Closing the loop. The answer turned out to depend on the detail I had left out of the opening post, which is a lesson about how to ask rather than about the subject.