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Adulting ~ Just Did My First Customs Intake Form

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via FedEx.

Had to do a DocuSign + Watch Worksheet.

Hopefully I did it all correctly, now just waiting to hear back from them or see the watch move closer to me via the FedEx app.

Finger's crossed.
 
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This is like the moment after you emphatically say yes to the car salesman and you have commited to buying it…clammy hands, still feeling the rush of the adrenaline and you can still smell the new leather on your clothes. Then they send you into a guy named Ira’s office…I need you to sign here, initial here, here, there, there- sign here, another initial there. Then we need to run this report for which I need you to sign here, and here- initials there.
 
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This is like the moment after you emphatically say yes to the car salesman and you have commited to buying it…clammy hands, still feeling the rush of the adrenaline and you can still smell the new leather on your clothes. Then they send you into a guy named Ira’s office…I need you to sign here, initial here, here, there, there- sign here, another initial there. Then we need to run this report for which I need you to sign here, and here- initials there.

Funny you mention this because I was just telling my wife about the Customs thing and she brought up the same scenario!
 
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Oh, and Ira always has too much cologne on. Always.
 
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Oh, and Ira always has too much cologne on. Always.
And sports paraphernalia in his office to make him seem more approachable.
 
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And sports paraphernalia in his office to make him seem more approachable.

As well as a family photo at Disneyland, and of course the obligatory photo of him in uniform with the local Wednesday Night softball league.
 
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You guys have a hell of an imagination. I have a cousin Ira and he doesn't resemble anything you two dreamed up. He is a "sales associate" in a large family owned scrap metal business. He's the guy who leans on reluctant manufacturing companies that might not readily agree to being added to his route. He looks like a plump Jewish Mickey Rourke only with more scars. 😁
 
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You guys have a hell of an imagination. I have a cousin Ira and he doesn't resemble anything you two dreamed up. He is a "sales associate" in a large family owned scrap metal business. He's the guy who leans on reluctant manufacturing companies that might not readily agree to being added to his route. He looks like a plump Jewish Mickey Rourke only with more scars. 😁

Would that be Mickey pre or post plastic surgeries? 😎
 
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I think Fred’s cousin Ira would have gotten your watch out of customs for you…and a few other things too.
 
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I think Fred’s cousins Ira would have gotten your watch out of customs for you…and a few other things too.

Hmmm... I have a couple high school grudges still fresh in my brain that could use shoring up.

Ira, you listening?
 
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This is like the moment after you emphatically say yes to the car salesman and you have commited to buying it…clammy hands, still feeling the rush of the adrenaline and you can still smell the new leather on your clothes. Then they send you into a guy named Ira’s office…I need you to sign here, initial here, here, there, there- sign here, another initial there. Then we need to run this report for which I need you to sign here, and here- initials there.

Been awhile since I've bought anything except private party, but the memories just came flooding back. 😲
 
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@Dan S ... question for ya:

When you've had watches inbound from outside the States, thru FedEx, what's the standard protocol once you've submitted documentation (Watch Worksheet, etc) -- do you get an email from FedEx or do you see the watch start moving again via tracking or both or what?
 
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@Dan S ... question for ya:

When you've had watches inbound from outside the States, thru FedEx, what's the standard protocol once you've submitted documentation (Watch Worksheet, etc) -- do you get an email from FedEx or do you see the watch start moving again via tracking or both or what?

I have more experience with DHL recently, and I'm not sure I remember whether FedEx is much different. If they requested info and you submitted it, you may get a confirmation that they received the info; that's probably dependent on the specific agent working on your case. After that, I think you should see it clear customs in the tracking, and then it should show up really quickly.
 
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I have more experience with DHL recently, and I'm not sure I remember whether FedEx is much different. If they requested info and you submitted it, you may get a confirmation that they received the info; that's probably dependent on the specific agent working on your case. After that, I think you should see it clear customs in the tracking, and then it should show up really quickly.

Thank you sir!
 
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watches inbound from outside the States, thru FedEx

I suspect customs offices and procedures might vary depending on what country the packages are sent from. We have been using fedex for almost two decades to ship boxes of used watches from the Philippines to the USA and never ever had to do anything special, both when we lived there and now that we're stateside. We used to, and now our relatives simply fill out the customs forms in the Philippines, list the contents as used watches for parts or service, declare actual value when bought in the Philippine used market, and the packages arrive stateside a few days later. Never has anyone contacted a USA recipient of these packages for customs purposes. We still receive boxes of used watches at least once a month from there and always via fedex.
 
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Read the title and thought you just applied for a customs job….😗
 
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…a large family owned scrap metal business…

That’s an unkind way to refer to your watch buying empire. 😉
 
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Still "Delayed".
The customs officer assigned to it, besides emailing me the forms, also CC'd Nivada Grenchen (because their contact info was on the shipping label as well) and as of today Nivada Grenchen also emailed me and the customs officer saying that I had filled in all the forms accurately and to "please release the watch for shipment completion to the customer" (which I kind of chuckled over - like Customs are going to be "HEY GUYS, NIVADA GRENCHEN SAYS RELEASE THE WATCH... GO AHEAD!").
 
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Boom...

must have cleared Customs, it's on the move again.

Question (@Dan S )... how/when/where do I get billed for the duties owed?
 
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