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(Real) Triangular shipping after Brexit

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Hi everyone! Some years ago (before finding out RWI) I bought a rep from Aliexpress with direct shipping, but italian (i am from Italy) custom seized me the watch and i had to pay a fine, so now I would buy watches only using triangular shipping. About this, I have to say that a lot of TDs offer this choice but i noticed that often it is not a real triangular shipping: the packet passes through other nations (such as UK before brexit or Netherland) but it is not collected by an external agent and then repackaged in direction of the destination country. The proof of this is that TDs give to the customer only one tracking code, but if the packet would be repackaged they should give 2 tracking code (for example, 1 for the transit from China to Netherland and 1 for the transit from Netherland to Italy)...
In my case, last year I ordered a watch by Jtime with triangular shipping and the packet took a detour from China through Uk and then arrived to Italy, but tracking infos showed clearly that the packet passed the custom in Italy, and not in Uk... in this way not only the shipping took longer time than direct shipping, but also i had the risk of confiscation by custom.
So can someone tell me if there is a TD that offers a REAL triangular shipping with 2 tracking codes ?
thank you

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the packet took a detour from China through Uk and then arrived to Italy, but tracking infos showed clearly that the packet passed the custom in Italy,

This is the very definition of triangle shipping - China, 3rd party country, destination country. All parcels, irrespective of the country they shipped from will go through your Customs, the difference being if they were shipped from within the EU, the parcel will not be checked and/or opened by Customs - but it still has to go through Customs.
 
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Hi everyone! Some years ago (before finding out RWI) I bought a rep from Aliexpress with direct shipping, but italian (i am from Italy) custom seized me the watch and i had to pay a fine, so now I would buy watches only using triangular shipping. About this, I have to say that a lot of TDs offer this choice but i noticed that often it is not a real triangular shipping: the packet passes through other nations (such as UK before brexit or Netherland) but it is not collected by an external agent and then repackaged in direction of the destination country. The proof of this is that TDs give to the customer only one tracking code, but if the packet would be repackaged they should give 2 tracking code (for example, 1 for the transit from China to Netherland and 1 for the transit from Netherland to Italy)...
In my case, last year I ordered a watch by Jtime with triangular shipping and the packet took a detour from China through Uk and then arrived to Italy, but tracking infos showed clearly that the packet passed the custom in Italy, and not in Uk... in this way not only the shipping took longer time than direct shipping, but also i had the risk of confiscation by custom.
So can someone tell me if there is a TD that offers a REAL triangular shipping with 2 tracking codes ?
thank you

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Sead (supermirrors) does
 

Nikola8893

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JTIME does it. Sent from China to the UK, it came in a week. Then a new shipment was sent, with a new tracking code to my country. The only problem is the Royal Mail and my Post, they are too slow.
 

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Well also Trustytime does. Actually my last purchase arrived in December 2020 hence I cannot confirm if something has change in last few days due to Brexit as per topic object

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