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Customs NYC customs time?

Nov 17, 2022

    1. Hi everyone, I've had a doll shipped to me from the UK via Parcelforce/Priority mail express international and she's been stuck in customs for three days. Usually every time I've had a doll in customs they breeze through in a matter of hours (I live on the west coast, and most of my dolls have come directly from Asia). This is the first time I've had a package come through NYC and I'm a little worried about the wait time and the potential for the package to get lost, especially because other threads on the topic I've looked up here have quoted customs wait times of weeks to months!

      Is there anything I can do to expedite the process, especially considering priority mail express was the shipping option chosen? Or is this a pray to mother SD sort of situation? :XD: Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
       
    2. The longest I waited was about 3-5 but that only really happens during holiday time. Usually it’s a couple hours to a day.
      I think you shouldn’t really worry just yet it’s only been three days. I think you can call usps to see where it’s at and sometimes that gets it to move. Other times there are employees that just tell you the tracking location which you already know. It just depends on the employee. But most of the time it doesn’t really do anything unless it’s been like weeks of no movement.
       
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    3. This past month I had a doll from Germany go through customs in NY and it spent about six days there
      . It was odd because the tracking went from “inbound into customs” then no updates until it was at my post office in South Carolina and out for delivery.
       
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    4. Customs can be slower during November and December since that's usually when they have increased shipment volume, so I wouldn't start fretting until it goes over a week.

      In addition, international package tracking is kind of wacky in general (sometimes USPS and the tracking aggregators like parcelsapp and 17track say different things) and sometimes employees just rush and no one scans the package, so it's moving along without the tracking saying so. I had a package I thought was still stuck in in NY customs get delivered.
       
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    5. Thank you for the input, everyone!! Apparently complaining is magic because her tracking updated about six hours after I posted this thread :lol: I guess the wait times quoted in other threads got me worried for nothing. Thanks again!
       
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