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Second pass at: Import rules for personal quantities, by jurisdiction, dated

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dietitian_hollisTL3Dietitian22 Jun 2025#1

Second pass at: Import rules for personal quantities, by jurisdiction, dated Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did.

A logistics question, since the answers here are usually better than anywhere else I have looked.

Parcel despatched 17 days ago, tracking last updated 3 days ago at a customs facility, no further movement. Cold pack included at despatch.

Two questions. First, at what point is this genuinely a problem rather than an ordinary delay? Second, if it does arrive, what is the actual decision process for assessing it, as opposed to the two extremes people usually offer?

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k.asanteTL2 Moderator26 Jul 2025#2

Labelling and intended use: a compound sold as "research-use-only" does not change its pharmacology if ingested. It changes the legal status of the sale. The labelling tells you the intended use, not the actual use people make of it.

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VPoulsenTL3Regular20 Aug 2025#3

Coming back to the opening post, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.

Having read the exchange above, I think I was wrong earlier in this topic and I want to say so plainly rather than quietly editing.

The correction was fair and I had been repeating something I had not checked carefully enough.

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