Timeline for Can I bring vacuum sealed coffee to the USA?
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| Apr 27, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | Thorsten S. | @phoog: Sorry, the "useless knowledge" was tongue in cheek for the information that coffee has such a strong odor, I did not mean your experience. I thought it was clear from the context. | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 3:14 | comment | added | user541686 | @michael_n: That's really funny, thanks for sharing that tip. | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 2:37 | comment | added | michael | border control pro tip: call your packages "lbs" (pounds), rather than "kilos" ... | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 22:49 | comment | added | phoog | @ThorstenS. Of course. The asker of this question is, however, like me, traveling from Europe with a single quarter-kilo package of coffee, so I don't see how my experience is "useless knowledge." | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 22:22 | comment | added | Thorsten S. | @phoog Useless knowledge: Coffee has such a strong odor that it hides drugs or other strong smelling things for smuggling, even for trained dogs. So the border police will take a sharper look for packages where the owner may be smuggling (and South America has high priority). | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 18:29 | comment | added | Marcel P. | All packages are opened. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 18:25 | comment | added | phoog | Okay, let me rephrase. In my experience, it is very unlikely. My experience is perhaps more relevant in that I tend to be traveling from Europe rather than South America, and I tend to have only a small number of packages of food rather than ten or more. When you have so many packages do they typically open all of them or just one or two? | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 14:01 | comment | added | Marcel P. | I live in South of Brazil and we drink Mate (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_(beverage)), like Argentina and Uruguay. Also, I bring this kind of tea in vacuum sealed package to US. I could say that in 50% of my travels, my packages were opened. Of course, usually, I have 10 or more packages in my checked luggage. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 13:56 | comment | added | phoog | Could be, but it is very unlikely. Even if the luggage is searched, the vacuum sealed containers will probably be left alone unless they appear to have been tampered with. | |
| Apr 26, 2017 at 13:45 | vote | accept | Murch | ||
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| Apr 26, 2017 at 13:29 | history | answered | Marcel P. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |