Legal analysis
1. Normally, the customs usually completes the inspection within three working days.
2. For the package that needs to be declared to the customs, the courier company will inform the recipient at this time. The recipient shall go through the customs declaration formalities with the international mail receipt notice (or arrival notice) and identity documents. Usually, the customs staff will not stay on a package for too long, because there are too many packages to deal with. If there are contraband in the package, the inspection and quarantine department will ask for unpacking inspection, and the customs officers will not unpack the inspection without permission.
Personal recommendation
It usually takes about 3-5 days for a package to clear customs. After the general package arrives at the customs, it is necessary to examine and approve the customs declaration form of the goods and the identity verification of personal belongings. X-ray each package and unpack some packages. Finally, after confirming that the packages are correct, they can be released for delivery.
Customs inspection process
First of all, EMS international mail belongs to postal express logistics enterprises and is supervised by the customs. After the international mail arrives at the mail center, EMS needs to send the mail to the customs supervision area for inspection. At this time, the status displayed by EMS official website will be "Sent to Customs".
Secondly, after the mail arrives in the supervision area, the customs will conduct actual supervision and inspection. The inspection method is to check all the mails with an X-ray machine first, and then to open and check the important mails. Thirdly, according to the relevant regulations, the postal department is responsible for notifying the recipients of the mails that need to go through customs formalities such as face-to-face signing and customs declaration, and mailing them to the Notice of Customs Procedures for Inbound and Outbound International Mail, so that the recipients can go through customs formalities accordingly.
Before the recipient completes the customs formalities with the notice, the mail status is still displayed as "sent to the customs", but the customs inspection and supervision work has been completed. For the mail that needs to go through customs formalities, because it takes a certain internal operation time for the post to send and deliver the notice, it will appear that "sent to the customs" will be displayed for a long time and the notice from the customs will not be received.
If you haven't received the notice for a long time, you can ask the postal department for information.