When to start worrying about packages in customs.

[draug]

I’m waiting for a package from Australia that was received by the post office April 15th. It was stuck there for two weeks before it got shipped internationally. Hopefully it turns up in the coming weeks but I’m prepared for further delays along the way.

I’ve also got an order from USA shipped with USPS that was placed March 27th. That one has been stuck in Chicago since April 11th but I’ll give at least another month before checking up on it in more detail. Patience sure is a virtue in these times.

[emba]

@KingPokemon

Now, what do you do? Don’t check tracking. Don’t lose sleep. Don’t make threads like this. Don’t worry, Be happy. All the ranting above means nothing and accomplishes nothing. YOU CANT CHANGE ANYTHING, so why waste your time. Give it 3 months, then contact seller to ask if the item was returned to him.

That’s it.

If only all buyers were like this, sadly some (especially in U.S.) are really impatient and opening “item not received” cases like 2 weeks after the package is shipped (from Europe).

For now I have just started to message all USA buyers that it can take easily over a month to get there and give them a chance to cancel for a full refund before I even ship anything to avoid problems later on.

[nickofturl]

@khairis

I’m actually in a similar situation here. I live in the U.S. and ordered a figure from Japan back on April 1st. Seller shipped it on the 7th and on the 8th it updated as “Processed Through Facility OSAKA INT.” Since then the tracking hasn’t updated at all and I think a few days after I ordered it japan declared a state of emergency. Looking through Ebay feedback it seems that other people have received their items from this seller, or other items from Japan during this time so I have no idea what to do. I keep hoping that the tracking will update again any day but by now it’s been a month since it’s updated. I read an article that said that packages were going to potentially be shipped back to the senders if they couldn’t be mailed out internationally. Not sure if the tracking would show something like this though.

Same exact scenario for me too.

[ripguyfawkes]

I have another Australia story to offer. My parcel supposedly left Australia on March 30th, but no tracking update ever since. It never arrived in Germany. Scheduled arrival was April 27th.

Must be one hell of a long flight then.

[randox]

@ripguyfawkes

I have another Australia story to offer. My parcel supposedly left Australia on March 30th, but no tracking update ever since. It never arrived in Germany. Scheduled arrival was April 27th.

Must be one hell of a long flight then.

2 months + is normal for parcels from Australia atm

[ansirfi]

March 18, 2020
10:09 am
Processed Through Regional Facility,
CHICAGO IL INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION CENTER

Bought something from a trusted efour member. No update since that

[pokeaddict84]

This Thread Summed Up I Guess

[lapraslaughing]

Just a recommendation for anyone wanting to buy international consider FedEx. It took a week for package to be delivered from japan. Though the package wasn’t large(average bubble mailer size) at the cost of 16 USD for that speed I feel it’s well worth it. EMS air mail would of been around 10 and it would of made it in July. If time isn’t an issue then saving the 6 dollars maybe worth it but then again 6 dollars for that added piece of mind seems like a pretty good deal to me.