I have never lost seed to custom ever and I have push the limit of what you can put in the mail
IIRC, the first time I ordered cannabis seeds was in 1993. I've never had a package arrive in which the seeds had been replaced by the generic Customs letter. I have had two packages make it to the ISC in New York and then vanish, but I have long since come to the conclusion that they must give preferential consideration to applicants who state that they're thieving b@stards who'll steal if hired to work at that particular ISC. The two "disappeared" shipments were of the type where some kind of crappy merchandise was included as a blind :rolleyes3 . In the same amount of time, I've had about five other things - things that had nothing to do with cannabis - enter that ISC and never come out again. It's like it's a black hole for anything "shiny."
They kept on getting my shit. Amersterdam
That might be hurting your odds just a little bit, lol. IDK if it is true or not, but I once read that they used to irradiate packages that came from there.
Actually, I'm surprised that the vast majority of seed shipments
aren't stopped at Customs. Considering the number of business addresses on the planet, the total number of cannabis seed businesses is
vanishingly small, lol. A person could spend one day searching for seedbank/breeder mailing addresses (both via the companies' websites and the occasional
halfwit that posts a picture - to one or more cannabis-related forums - of his/her package when it arrives), another in making minimum orders to all of the ones for which addresses cannot easily be determined... and about five minutes writing a code patch for automated mail sorting machines to have packages with one of those few "shipped from" addresses forwarded to the agency of their choice, lol. I suppose that means that NO ONE in either Customs or the postal system is in possession of both a reasonable IQ and half a cup of motivation (for which I am grateful).
There are some companies that won't ship to the USA, but most of them appear to be in the Netherlands. Australia, on the other hand, I feel sorry for growers living there.
Apparently government employees there are required to have a pulse, not be in a coma, and to spend at least some portion of each workday with their eyes open.