MK Pro Stuck in Customs

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MK Pro Stuck in Customs

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I've got an MK Pro that's been at the ISC Facility in NYC for almost three weeks. It's inbound, to the USA from Glascow. Has anybody had a similar experience?
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Seamus McNaught wrote:I've got an MK Pro that's been at the ISC Facility in NYC for almost three weeks. It's inbound, to the USA from Glascow. Has anybody had a similar experience?
Not with a whistle, but yeah, sometimes stuff gets hung up there for weeks with no apparently good reason. Had this happen with a flute, thought they’d lost it, destroyed it, or something but no, they were just taking their sweet time. I wouldn’t seriously worry just yet, likely it will be released by the end of next week, if not sooner.
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Thanks. I suppose I'll sweat it out.

Funny but I see the customs agents saying, "Yeah...throw it in that pile. He doesn't want it bad enough yet."
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Loren's right. They are understaffed, and from now until the Christmas backlog is cleared, this'll be a bad time of year. :sleep:

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Thanks, A.S.
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My MK Pro came lickety-split (a number of years ago), but I had a pipe chanter posted by Royal Mail from the UK that took a couple of months to clear customs here in the U.S. I had just decided to try and get my money back, and it showed up in perfect condition in the post that day.
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Thanks.
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Thanks everybody. I got the whistle after it was stuck in customs for about a month. The funny thing is that it's clear that it was never opened by customs. Oy!

First thoughts.... Very chiffy and airy. Low air requirements. Exactly what I wanted.
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