Moving abroad and terrified about getting my meds - help

LibrarianMeg said:

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

This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. 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.

Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. For anyone reading later: the numbers in this thread are worth checking against a primary source before you act on them, including mine. Half the figures circulating in this community trace back to a secondary summary that dropped a qualifier.

If somebody has the primary source to hand I would rather cite it than paraphrase it.

kate.chem said:

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

Coming at kate.chem’s question from a different direction. The mechanism and the magnitude are separate questions. Agreeing that something happens says nothing about whether it happens enough to act on.

Ask again with the specifics and you will get a better answer than this one.

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

How would you tell the difference between that and the alternative explanation?

Reporting back.

Reporting back with a partial result, because a partial result is still better than silence. Two of the three things suggested helped; I cannot separate them and I am not going to pretend otherwise.