Personal import allowances, compared — a second dataset — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable.
Posting a small dataset on Personal import allowances. It is mine, it is uncontrolled, and the method is stated so it can be discounted appropriately.
What I would like is not agreement but a second dataset collected by someone with no stake in mine. If one exists I would rather read it than argue for this one.
Distinguishing three things in the Personal import allowances discussion that keep getting used interchangeably: the observation, the proposed mechanism, and the recommendation that gets attached to both.
Clear enough that I do not think I have a follow-up, which is unusual.
Post #2 answers the question as asked. The question underneath it is different.
Personal import allowances sits at the boundary between what this community can usefully discuss and what it cannot, and I think it falls on the discussable side, narrowly.
I read post #4 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite.
Nothing here is legal advice, and in this subcategory that caveat is doing real work rather than sitting decoratively at the end.
Personal import allowances would be much easier to settle if anyone reported the denominator. Almost nobody reports the denominator.
What I would tell a new member reading about Personal import allowances for the first time: the confident posts are not the reliable ones, and the reliable ones are longer.
Picking up post #7: that is the part I would want checked first.
Regional practice around what a pharmacy will and will not do varies enormously and is not deducible from the regulatory position.
Import rules for personal quantities are jurisdiction-specific and change without much publicity. Establishing your own position is unavoidable.
Reading it again, the caveat matters more than the finding.
On Personal import allowances I would separate what is worth knowing from what is worth acting on. The first list is long and the second is short, and conflating them is how threads get heated.
On post #10 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.
Reporting rather than recommending, on Personal import allowances. What happened is above. Whether it should have is a different question and not one I am qualified to answer.
That is a fair summary of where the discussion has got to.
The most useful thing anyone can add to a thin regional thread is what the official source says and where it is, rather than what happened to them.
Somebody will have a better source than mine, and I hope they post it.
Worth separating two things that post #14 runs together.
Since Personal import allowances keeps coming up, it should probably be a maintained page rather than a recurring thread. I am happy to draft it if someone with more direct experience will review it.
Temperature-controlled material and long-haul travel is a practical problem with practical solutions, none of which are on the packaging.
Coming back to post #18, because the follow-up matters more than the original answer.
Summarising the Personal import allowances thread so far, since it is long and the answer is buried: the first reply has the method, the fourth has the correction to it, and the rest is people agreeing at length.
Import rules for personal use: what you can import for personal use depends on your country's rules, not on where it is sold. Checking your country's rules before ordering is prudent.
Adding the caveat now so it does not have to be extracted later.
Reading this Personal import allowances thread as someone who came in with a fixed view: the third and seventh replies moved me and the confident ones did not.
Helpful, and easy to find again, which is half of what a good reply is.
Both are useful and they are different contributions. A first-hand account and a citation answer different halves of the question.
I am aware this is the third time this month I have made this point.
Post #27 is right about the mechanism and I think understates the practical bit.
Import rules for personal use: what you can import for personal use depends on your country's rules, not on where it is sold. Checking your country's rules before ordering is prudent.
I would be cautious about generalising from the Personal import allowances example above. It is a good example. It is one example.