u/Physical-Incident553

Was just asking Gemini when CBP might be releasing anything regarding the enforcement EO and got a hit on this FR notice to be published tomorrow 8/19

Note: these red flags are all present on POA I reject.

Email address is Outlook. Hint: Outlook is not blocked in China, like Gmail is. I’ve noticed better chance of IOR being legit if email is Gmail.

Photo ID is DL from an American? Look at photo background since DL is sometimes not put on a table. Junky background, very dirty fingernails/hands that don’t match the person in the ID? I’m convinced some Americans are selling their ID to be used as false IOR contact/on incorporation docs.

Same US phone number that appears on a bunch of POAs? I swear this number is essentially an answering service. They tell you to call them at a different number for POA verification.

CBP is doing IOR video call verification via MS Teams. I’m now doing video calls and I take a screen shot while on call and I have photo ID up on screen while on call. If they insist on regular, not video, call. I reject POA since they’re obviously hiding something.

When you ask for Section 3 of 5106 to be completed, especially Section 3J, the IOR suddenly disappears.

Add your red flags.

I need some laughs right now. Here’s my two entries. Very recently got a very sloppily filled out POA from a forwarder. Very small shipment for first time importer. Dude went off the rails when we said we needed POA directly from IOR, plus we needed photos ID, 5106, etc. He still protested we didn’t need any of that. I sent him a link to CBP’s POA validation webpage. He still argued. On another bigger shipment, same forwarder. Same thing with just sending POA. We’d sent him what we needed, with a reminder several days later. Argue, argue, argue. I finally sent him the new EO about strengthening customs enforcement. 🤦‍♀️

I saw a photo within the past year, but cannot find it now. It was one of the WTC towers, leaning significantly right before collapse. I’d appreciate a link. Thank you.

ACH only beginning Wednesday for PSC voluntary tenders. Wondered when we were going to see this.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/4236480

Not sure who here might have seen it, but the Yale Budget Lab has some good stuff on the effects of the tariffs. Heard about it a while back on the NPR Marketplace program/podcast.

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/

So I’m cleaning up some stuff that happened before I started at current job with re-exports and entry cancellations. I’m finding that a lot of IEs were arrived, not exported. Is this common? I was always taught to arrive ITs, export IEs, and arrive/export T&Es. CBP is rejecting CR deletion requests, saying we have to complete export movement in the system before we can resubmit for CR cancellation. I’m thinking this was because the IE was arrived instead of being exported. We didn’t do these inbonds. Different transport providers did. Yes, we have emails into CBP asking the question of arriving an IE instead of exporting is causing the issue.

Wanted to keep this from being buried in the comments on the other post.

https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-421d887?wgt_ref=USDHSCBP_WIDGET_2

Excluded HS code list: https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDHSCBP/2026/07/23/file_attachments/3723786/Forced%20Labor%20HTS%20LIST.pdf

I'm considering switching from Apple Watch (6 year user). I'm a woman with small wrists. I don't use my Apple Watch for much more than time, text notifications (then I move to phone), sleep, and fitness tracking, plus Apple Pay. No music, phone calls, etc. I'm a moderate exerciser, but I do need fall detection. Does Garmin Pay work well? It looks like some variation of the Lily might work well for me. Thoughts?

I’ve been off the last five weeks after quitting a very toxic job with no notice. I start my new job later this week. I’ve been a sloth, but somehow got a 🔥under my butt today. Did a ton of decluttering. Clothes, papers, lots of boxes from online orders. I have a big counter over base cabinets between my living room and kitchen. It’s my dumping ground. It’s all cleared off and wiped down. I can’t tell how good it will feel to come home to a straightened up place.

I'm F/57. Just had to share. I just accepted a new job! I quit a very toxic job of five years a month ago with no notice (yes, it was that bad). Been interviewing since I quit and just accepted a new job today. Pay is very good, but a bit less than toxic old job, but that's OK, as it's a bit less responsibility. I start next Wednesday. Same industry I've been in for ages. 😁 I have some very specialized, niche skills that are in demand. Jobs are out there, but it really depends on the industry. All in office, but that's OK. I've always been in office, except for eight months during covid.

So title says it all. I’m an experienced broker that quit a pretty toxic place last month. I’m in a big inland port. I’m wondering how weekend air frt clearances are handled by other brokers that are fully in office. Last place I either had to go into the office or log in from personal pc at home. We had desktops at the office. Curious as I interviewed last week at a brokerage that also has desktops in the office, no laptops, and requires any weekend clearances to be done in office.

I'm outside the UK. I work in international logistics and frequently deal with customers/vendors in the UK. Many of my contacts are gone for 2-3 weeks of August. Some are gone for the entire month. How much do offices empty out during the August holidays? From the sounds of it, they operate on skeleton staff, at least the companies I deal with.

This question is for west coast residents. How much do you worry about earthquakes? Do you consider quakes when arranging your home? A friend has lived in the San Francisco area for a while. We're both Midwestern natives. She showed me video of her new place yesterday. Lots of heavy bookcases filled with books and fragile knicknacks. Big heavy framed picture over her bed headboard. I asked if she had strapped anything down or used art putty to hold her decorative items down. I've had other friends who are California natives and they had told me what they've done inside their homes, so I knew what some did for earthquake preparedness, including friends who went through Loma Prieto in 1989.

Broker here. We received first refund deposit from CBP for importers we filed on behalf of. I’m trying to run the REV-615 report, but I keep getting a HTTP status 400 -bad request error message. Anyone else? This is my first time ever running a report. 🤬