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The Letters - Update December 21, 2008
- Thread starter Ginseng
- Start date
I usually get my orders w/in a week of the shipping date from a very popular source. It's going on a month, so I'm waiting for the dreaded "letter" to come.
It's a waste of government resources if you ask me. I think they should spend their time looking for bombs and drugs and leave the almost legal CC's alone.
I sure hope Trump is a Cuban cigar smoker.
It's a waste of government resources if you ask me. I think they should spend their time looking for bombs and drugs and leave the almost legal CC's alone.
I sure hope Trump is a Cuban cigar smoker.
personal User
Active Member
I would check with the vendor and see if others are in the same boat.
It's been probably a couple of years since a whole pallet of stuff got pushed to the back in NY customs. My vendor offered to refund at the time but I knew a number had been tracked to a USPS facility in NY which research indicated was a customs entry point. About six or seven weeks after initial shipment, items hit my mailbox and a number of other mailboxes.
Christmas rush, Christmas holidays, many Government employees with vacation time built up take vacation over the holidays.
It's cold, they are well sealed. I would be antsy but not major concerned until around Jan 10th or so.
Ordered some cigars late December 2020 early January 2021. The two tracking numbers have been in limbo, one leaving NY and the other leaving SC. Ordered some cigars from the same vendor for our group buy in February and those cigars got here in a couple of weeks.
Yesterday I check the mail and I have a letter from US Customs and Border Protection. Said letter stated that they had confiscated 50 cuban cigars. Was wondering if anyone had gotten their cigars confiscated lately? It had been a long time since I had heard of any confiscations.
Contacted vendor for resolution, will keep you posted.
Update Patrol to Protection, showing my age, LOL
Yesterday I check the mail and I have a letter from US Customs and Border Protection. Said letter stated that they had confiscated 50 cuban cigars. Was wondering if anyone had gotten their cigars confiscated lately? It had been a long time since I had heard of any confiscations.
Contacted vendor for resolution, will keep you posted.
Update Patrol to Protection, showing my age, LOL
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smellysell
Well-Known Member
Damn, that's the first I've heard of in a loooong time. Hopefully the vendor takes care of you.
CigarStone
For once, knowledge is making me poor!
I've often wondered about this.
All it takes is one person in customs who likes Cuban cigars, or even just does 10 minutes of research, and they could easily be able to zero in on the appropriate packages?
Maybe they have a quota to meet and they just randomly pick a package?
All it takes is one person in customs who likes Cuban cigars, or even just does 10 minutes of research, and they could easily be able to zero in on the appropriate packages?
Maybe they have a quota to meet and they just randomly pick a package?
jayro75
Well-Known Member
I had a shipment snagged by customs last August coming from The Netherlands. Tracking showed it awaiting clearance for months until the tracking link expired. Was waiting daily for a letter but never received one. I'm guessing there's a CBP agent enjoying some very aged cigars courtesy of me.
CigSid
Love this place...
That really sucks!!
I have had 4 boxes returned to the sender because of customs, but it’s been several years since I’ve received “the letter”
Flea7
Member
I"ve had 2 shipments confiscated back in 2008 and 2009, HK origin. The vendor made everything right. But when my wife and I went to apply for Global Entry in 2015 the HSO officer interviewing me asked questions about it and at the endI was denied the global entry pass. Both were mailed to my work address so I don't know how they tied me to them.
I'm good with Clear and TSA approved.
Has anyone run into this issue?
I'm good with Clear and TSA approved.
Has anyone run into this issue?
lucasbuck
Sheriff Buck
Same has happened to many of my friends. I received one letter but had several shipments nabbed all in a few months all from the same vendor in OZ. Can’t remember what year but was probably same as you ‘08 or so. Planning on applying for global entry myself next year sometime and hoping i get lucky. Fully expectiing to be denied which is such bullshit. Haven’t ordered anything in years but if I do again I’ll use an alias which apparently keeps you off the radar.
Did you cop to it or deny it was you? Was your wife approved?
Did you cop to it or deny it was you? Was your wife approved?
ggiese
Well-Known Member
Not surprising... When we went through our Global Entry interview he kept insisting it was a "trust" thing - in other words Customs trusted that we would claim anything, as we should, that we bring back into the country. Including contraband... The funny thing is - on at least two occasions I have declared both rum and cigars of Cuban origin (a few cigars and a few bottles) and they let me take them through Customs (I figured it was better than hiding them). I've never had them confiscated. I was stunned...
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Flea7
Member
I didn't admit to anything. I told them I know nothing about it. My wife was approved but I got the stink eye all the way home in the car. LOL
Flea7
Member
Update... I've recently had 6 boxes snagged. 
They were good boxes ...so disappointed. I used a different name and address on the last one too.
They were good boxes ...so disappointed. I used a different name and address on the last one too.