Italy AIFA reimbursement — what worked for you?

JessicaH_TX said:

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

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. 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.

DebRD_ATL said:

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

Adding the part of the answer the thread has not reached. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.

One thing that is still open after tane_welly’s answer:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

Reporting back.

Reporting back for the archive rather than for the thread: I did the narrow version of what was suggested, gave it the full interval, and it settled. Posting it because threads without a follow-up are half a thread.