Dr.AddMedPHL said:

International shipping tracking for cross-border ordering orders: my experience with customs in the US when ordering from overseas: Required FDA…

Filing a mild objection. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit. Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions. What is a personal-import allowance in one country is a controlled-import offence in another.

That is the short version; the long version is somebody else's post.

The figures, for anyone assembling their own picture. Say what you would expect to see if you were wrong, before you look. It is a small discipline and it changes what you notice.

CarlaRPh_TPA said:

Import rules are jurisdiction-specific and this board keeps giving US-shaped answers to non-US questions.

Coming at CarlaRPh_TPA’s question from a different direction. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.

Following on from EndoResFellow — and this may be the naive question:

What would you measure differently if you were starting again?

Reporting back.

Update — I was wrong in the opening post, specifically about the direction. Correcting it here rather than editing it away.