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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2915158, member: 19250"]When Customs does an inspection it is under no time frame what so ever, that said they can hold any item indefinitely. That said the item in question can be held ,or confiscated. I've had jewerly opened at Kennedy airport NY by Customs,unwrapped from its packaging, inspected, held two weeks,thrown back in the package"unwrapped, and a slip charging me the duty on the item .A pair of ear rings for my wife ,one was in the gift box,the other found in the outer package. Wrapping paper ribbon all bunched up in the package.So they can hold and do what ever they please to determine the status of any item.Since the package came from the Cayman islands I suspect they were looking for turtle shell items.Again depending on port of entry ,and a ever changing items they are targeting for inspection.Ask our friends from tne great white north.....their inspections are from A to Z and their post man will collect any duty from you before you are given the package. There was a member who went by the screen name of "fake Canada" Mike single handedly stopped ebay Ca. From allowing fake coins on the site. To be sold in Canada!He also worked with the Canadian government to  close it's borders to any item being sold unless it was clearly marked "Fake" or "Copy" .There are probably  members on CT who remember Mike or know of his efforts to prohibit such items in  Canada.[/QUOTE]