Save your time and energy ....
As this will apply to your own experience only , aka to your own country's customs rules.
What people have to do :
1-check one's own country regulations regarding Cites eligible items importation .
2- ask their seller to ship and include papers according to those regulations.
or/ ask their seller to skip the sensitive words on the customs declaration and take responsibility/appropriate action, if anything goes wrong at arrival in their country.
Usually, it goes just fine if nothing sensitive is written on customs declaration. In my experience LOW PROFILE is always safer.
Actually one has to understand how it works :
A parcel will be hold by customs at entry of country of destination, if anything written on the custom declarations catches attention of the custom agents.
Then they will check if appropriate papers are included. If not , they will hold the parcel and open a file. They will contact recipient to get the missing papers and/or open the parcel and check what's inside.
and so on....
So the very first step is to write NOTHING that could catch attention, especially if the appropriate papers are missing.
Ps : I'm blonde too but I have learned my lesson
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I am so sorry to hear all of this. Is there anything that Hermes might be able to do -- or is this out of their hands, since the Cites must be received at the time of purchase (from the time of purchase done at Hermes)?
and low value. so there was nothing to be suspicious about.
