This is so stupid. Sometimes crooks use your address to mail contraband and under observation pick up from your mailbox before you can receive it. Like porch bandits. How do customs know you actually ordered the confiscated package? Does this mean you can cause someone to lose their TSA/global entry just by sending them a fake package? Lovely. Because what’s their verification process? If your package gets confiscated you can always claim you know nothing about it and didn’t order it - how would they know you are telling the truth and are innocent? It’s already confiscated, you lose nothing by denying ownership.
All in all, it’s just dumb, as all repressive systems. This is what we’ve come to, scheming just to get affordable medication, SMH.
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In this case, you would get a certified letter from customs, your best course of action would be to ignore said letter. You usually have 3 options when you receive letter from them: abandonment, contest of the seizure, asking for a reduced fine. Ignoring the letter is the same as abandoning. Ignoring the letter leaves the government with little to no direct evidence connecting you to the purchase or intent to import.
Perhaps someone could explain to me how to get more than a one-month supply from an online doc?
I abandoned the online doc method several years ago because I could only get a one-month prescription and had to pay the online doc each month for a new one. Not to mention that they were not willing to prescribe many of the meds I get from India. This was not particularly cost-effective, so that is why I source all of my unconventional meds from India.
Was I just using the wrong online prescriber? Can anyone recommend an online prescribing site that will prescribe a 90-day supply, for instance?
I don’t mind paying reasonable fees, but paying a prescriber once a month seems to be defeating the purpose of obtaining drugs at a reasonable fee in the US.
I’ve used PushHealth.com and gotten a 3 month prescription no problem. Probably dependent on the vendor. Try asking at the start of the communications.
That is exactly the site I used. It seems like the luck of the draw. Last time I was dealing with a truly disturbed PA. If the India sources dry up, maybe I will try them again.
OK, but how do you get stuff like imeglimin through our teledocs, or obicetrapib when the latter gets marketed in europe, but we’re still waiting on the FDA stateside? There’s always going to be drugs unavailable in the states, and if you want/need them badly, you will be forced to find some kind of way to import them - at which point you may as well save yourself the $ and hassle and import your whole stack again. Unless your stack is exclusively stuff available stateside, I don’t see much point in local teledocs/clinics. But we’ll see how bad this customs/FDA situation gets - I’m counting on human ingenuity .
What were the circumstances? Was your stuff confiscated at the airport during a customs check upon reentry into the US, or was it something you were getting through the mail, and then you applied for TSA/Global Entry later and got denied? Sharing your story would definitely help people avoid the issue.
Not a big enough amount of the population for it to be statistically significant, especially when no major party will actually rally for the importation of overseas medications nor would the average voter for the major parties be particularly sorrowful for the plight of someone trying to import medication cheap from overseas.
It can easily be framed as black market drug seeking and people are generally too willing to accept such a narrative because it doesn’t affect them and it is entertaining to go through the motions of thinking this is what reality is.
Easy solution. Change your address with the dmv to that of one of your siblings/family/friend and apply for TSA global entry. Once you receive it, switch back to your address. LOL
I can neither confirm nor deny if there was a controlled substance in the package. However, if the rules are changing then I would assume everything will be treated as illegal to import and possibly have the same consequences.
It was confiscated through the mail. Yes, when I went to apply for TSA Pre-check and Global entry I was denied because of “customs violations.” I tried three different avenues to get more information and appeal the situation. This included writing a letter to their Ombudsmen, but I never received any responses. It was very frustrating.
I hadn’t thought of that. It might be something to try. It does cost $120 to apply though and if you add that to the cost (and time) of changing my address with the DMV, it’s probably not worth it. Also, I do believe they asked me to list all addresses for the past 10 years or something like that. If my memory is correct, then it would still show up.
For what it’s worth, I was approved for TSA pre-check after a seizure, but I don’t mess around with controlled substance imports so maybe that’s a factor. It’s one thing to get a love letter from the FDA, but it’s quite another to get DEA attention, because they keep records and build cases over time. I haven’t bothered applying for Global Entry.
There are still vendors who are planning to ship after Oct 22, but they charge a premium.
I got my tracking too. In the past it would take no more than seven days. Nervous about checking for the updates. I want to order more if this works out. Want to order from SK as well.
Yeah. My first package from Maulik was shipped September 26 and according to tracking it’s still at the Mumbai airport. Same with second package. Delivery times seem to be longer than normal. Probably eat to order soon or take your chances.
For a control of sorts, I ordered four different drugs from Universal Drug, all with an Rx provided. Two of the drugs were sourced to India, one the UK and one Canada. I have tracking numbers but not much action yet.
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