A parcel stationary at a customs facility for nine days

Confirming post #2 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.

Reshipment after seizure: if a parcel is seized, some suppliers will reship; others will not. That is a supplier choice and should be understood before ordering in a jurisdiction with higher seizure risk.

Noting that the question and the thing people usually mean by it are different.

Post #6 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.

Border outcomes are not predictable at the level of an individual parcel. What is predictable is that consistent, accurate declarations correlate with fewer interventions.

On balance I think that is right, and I would not bet much on it.

A tracking gap at a customs facility is the most common cause of an unexpectedly long transit and the segment nobody has visibility of.

If this contradicts something upthread, the upthread version may well be the better one.

Documentation after arrival: photograph the parcel and its contents on arrival. If something later turns out wrong (damage, loss, wrong item) you have evidence of the condition it arrived in.

This is the sort of thing the wiki should carry and currently does not.

Where the parcel stationary reasoning breaks down for me is the step from the group result to the individual case. That step is almost never argued for.

This follows post #33 rather than contradicting it.

An observation about parcel stationary that I cannot explain and am posting anyway, on the principle that unexplained observations are more useful public than private.

Photographing the parcel on arrival before opening it takes ten seconds and is the difference between a report and a recollection.

Border outcomes are not predictable at the level of an individual parcel. What is predictable is that consistent, accurate declarations correlate with fewer interventions.

This is the sort of exchange that makes the archive worth searching.