Goodie, a 2nd piece of LV held at German customs. My run of bad

#16
_marmalade said:
that is crazy! how do they even know the package contains an LV luggage tag? it's so small, I would think it'd fit a small bubble envelope (our custom officer rarely opened an envelope-size package). Was it declared as an LV item??
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No, but German customs seems to check a lot of things that come from outside of EU. When we first moved here, my DH's mom sent us a care package w/ candies, potato chips and chocolate chip cookies (don't laugh). And it was held at customs for inspection.
 
#24
How did your mom send this to you?

A luggage tag could have easily been placed in an envelope where no customs form is required. Was it in a package with other items? Did she write "Louis Vuitton" on the customs form? If so, I wouldn't do that anymore...I never write anything too specific on the customs forms, just to avoid the possibility of someone getting ahold of the package and stealing the contents.
 
#25
lamiastella said:
How did your mom send this to you?

A luggage tag could have easily been placed in an envelope where no customs form is required. Was it in a package with other items? Did she write "Louis Vuitton" on the customs form? If so, I wouldn't do that anymore...I never write anything too specific on the customs forms, just to avoid the possibility of someone getting ahold of the package and stealing the contents.
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My mom sent the luggage tag in a flat bubble envelope, same way Let Trade sent my bracelet.

On the custom form, my mom wrote "luggage tag" w/ a $20 value, and Let Trade wrote "used bracelet" w/ a $40 value. Neither mentioned LV, yet both were held by customs. I had to go down to the office in person to open the packages.

Once customs saw they were LV items, they told me they had to hold it for authentication.
 
#26
voodoodoll2005 said:
My mom sent the luggage tag in a flat bubble envelope, same way Let Trade sent my bracelet.

On the custom form, my mom wrote "luggage tag" w/ a $20 value, and Let Trade wrote "used bracelet" w/ a $40 value. Neither mentioned LV, yet both were held by customs. I had to go down to the office in person to open the packages.

Once customs saw they were LV items, they told me they had to hold it for authentication.
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so weird, were both sent via EMS by chance :confused1: So far I've never had any problems with items sent via Global Priority Mail (or Priority Mail International, what it's called now) or Airmail, but every single EMS package I got (no difference whether it was from Asia or the US) has been caught by customs :Push:
 
#27
^^^^Hmmm, I'm pretty sure Let Trade uses EMS for all their shipping. But I think my mom just used International Priority Mail.

She did fill out a custom form, now it sounded like maybe she didn't have to?

Who knows....
 
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