Comment · Sat, May 8, 2021 · ND Owner
Supply chain breakdown risks for Nootropics Depot?
Original post in this thread
blabmight · 42 points
This might be best answered by /u/misteryouaresodumb but I thought I'd post the question because it might be useful for others who are curious.
Is it true that $150k worth of supplies have been lost and rejected? And there's $500k currently in limbo? And certain supplies like bottles could end up arriving in a year from purchase?
I'm wondering what sort of risk this poses for Nootropics Depot?
Are there any details regarding what has caused customs to clamp down so tightly? Is there a foreseen date of when things will loosen up or is this probably going to persist under the current administration?
I'm just curious about the details around this\\these issues.
What they were answering
ryanmercer · 1 points
US Customs started inspecting EVERY SINGLE PACKAGE coming into the country starting around December 20th.
Ehhhh that's not remotely true. I clear international freight through customs for a living, we saw nowhere near 100% of manual inspection requests. Probably nowhere near even 1%. We clear tens of thousands of packages a night, if CBP was inspecting every single package they'd need to increase their staff 100 fold, at least.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
That's what I would think, but literally every single one of our packages has been inspected the past few months. I reached out to a couple other people in the industry importing similar products, and all of theirs have been inspected as well. Every single one. This is why I was thinking they were targeting a specific class of products for a short period. There's no way they can inspect every package for every type of product. It would be impossible. I suppose they could have just been targeting us specifically, but other companies in other states that I contacted said they were going through the same thing. This is what made me think they were just looking at supplements and chemicals. Things seem to be getting back to normal now.