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@*tippy*toes* wrote:

How long ago did you post? I stopped posting to Germany because post was always slow. Things get stuck in customs, sometimes for weeks. Ebays stupid estimates don't allow for customs delays and buyers think their item is lost only for it to turn up weeks after the last estimate date.

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You just reminded me of something I forgot to mention 🙂 , apparently Germany prefers invoices on the outside of incoming packages. If there's one that customs can access, the package usually moves a lot faster, but if there isn't one, it can be delayed for up to a few weeks longer.

I have no idea why this is, as customs declarations generally provide most of the same info (though usually a little less specific, and summarised rather than itemised), but pretty much without exception, sellers say that as soon as they started adding an invoice for customs on the outside, their packages arrived much sooner than before. 

I've only sent a handful of packages there myself, so don't have a lot of comparable experience to say for sure, but I know the first one I sent over there (pack & track, no invoice) took 2 months, and the second one (standard large letter, invoice on the outside) took 3 weeks.