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non EMS package stays at customs usually a week, EMS that is quite cheap from US leaves customs usually within couple hours. EMS cost just about 10$ over standard priority mail and gets here in 5-7 days. priority mail can take ages.

it's not about a value of the shipment but what is written on the package. if you put there something like - toy car part for repair they will leave it alone (especially when most of the custom officers hardly know any english :) )


if package does not have an invoice attached to it and is shipped from a private address customs leave it alone.

I order stuff from US more than regularly and never had an issue with EMS but with Priority mail plenty (one got here after 40 days, couple were returned to sender withouit any reason)

Since about a half year ago I use only EMS. i even use forwarding service for stores that dont offer EMS (like tower) that consolides my packages and sends them via EMS

I even used EMS to send my first dead quark to US to be sure (tho our EMS is more expensive - like $50 the lowest rate)