Just had an interesting phone call
I had a parcel arrive into the country on the 25th, and on the 28th learnt that it was with customs. Rang looking for the invoice number and was told that the parcel had not been checked out (or whatever their wording was). They suggested I try again on Monday.
I did.
After several attempts I finally spoke to someone at customs who advised that they were holding my parcel to check that the contents was what it was - in this case toys. Specifically, real toys over knock offs.
(For those of you about to ask, the order contains 13 officially licensed Hasbro Transformer toys that are not sold locally in New Zealand, sourced from Hong Kong - sold by Hasbro Hong Kong)
The inspection of my parcel will be done whenever it is done - just need to wait.
They have requested a copy of the invoice to help the claim that the toys are the toys I think they are ...
The person I spoke to rattled off some act numbers as evidence they could do this.
Which is fine - I have no issue that my parcel was 'randomly' stopped to be looked at, I will just have a concern if the boxes of the toys are opened and the time it has taken for them to not do anything so far.