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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: SovietCat on March 10, 2012, 08:39 pm
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So I placed an order for 2 grams of powder out of Germany over a month ago and it has yet to arrive to the eastern US.
I'm aware that customs is checking all inbound mail from flagged countries, and I'm starting to get very nervous that it may have been intercepted.
Anyone else having similar issues with international orders?(specifically Germany?)
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Thats interesting I always thought germany would be a "safe "country to order from....why do you think its flagged?
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Thats interesting I always thought germany would be a "safe "country to order from....why do you think its flagged?
I've noticed a lot of the German vendors on here proclaim that their product was imported from the Netherlands.
I wonder if somehow Germany's been flagged as a drug proxy for the Netherlands.
But then again, I know nothing about the frequency of proxying between these two countries, just what I've seen on SR.
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It doesn't matter if they flag 20 countries they can only check so much mail.
Germany is one the biggest economies in the world, the mail volume coming out there must be massive.
I think this flagged country thing is overplayed.
I would be more worried about ordering from South America/Russia/India/China/Middle East/Eastern Europe etc than I would from
NL or especially Germany.
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Right, but I would suppose they would open a higher percentage of the mail coming from the Netherlands than say, Ireland. Even if they get more mail from the Netherlands than Ireland. Like any job, they're going to spend more time focusing on their biggest problems, to do their job as efficiently as possible.
I understand that Germany has a lot of mail traffic going to the US, but the post office has been changing a lot. Who knows if they've shifted focus due to contraband importing patterns changing over the last few years (I don't see why the import rates couldn't change, drug traffickers adapt VERY quickly to get around obstacles to their income).
My input anyway... I want more people to chime in on this.
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I can say with cofidence ive had very good luck receiving from US, Most EU countrys(never ordered from NL) india has been ok for the most part minus the looooooong shipping times,south africa is very ok.
Now countrys to avoid like the plague are middle east, china, pakistan*** especially pakistan I honestly think they inspect the majority of packages from pakistan especially if the reciever name is "Mathew Jhonson"
instead of soemthing along the lines of Usama uzair AL-shibab you get my drift.
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All this chitchat and all those posts i see from "expecting this from->to" well thats providing filters on a golden plate.
As for increased security I would like to see : continent instead of country on the marketplace. And stop with telling the from->to's, whens.