"... petition for their return"? Not worth it. The FDA's 1988 Pilot Guidance was intended to allow personal-use mail imports of drugs not sold in the U.S. If anyone here was born before the protease-inhibitor cocktail came to be used for HIV, the AIDs activist group Act Up lobbied the FDA to start a policy to look the other way in order to allow possibly life-saving treatments for the terminally ill. That's how the Pilot Guidance came to be; there were AIDs treatments used in other countries and not approved by the FDA. Nonetheless, despite the 1988 Guidance (which was a policy statement to not enforce the law) ... under the FFD&C Act, FDA has had for over 30 years the discretionary authority to seize ANY prescription drug imported from overseas by mail which was not manufactured in an FDA-approved factory. But they rarely do it unless it's something like carisoprodol (because it's scheduled in several states) ... but they can ... and they do ... seize almost anything. (Yes, they can, and do, seize Catapres coming in from Canada ... it's all about protecting U.S. drug company profits but they pretend it's to protect our safety).

Also, re getting seized drugs out of Customs by threatening a lawsuit, i'd love to see some proof that really happened. I've never heard a credible story of such a request succeeding. There would be no legal basis for a lawsuit, and Customs and FDA knows that. If you sent Customs such a threat now, they'd probably add you to one of the Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) watchlists and search and interrogate you every time you fly. Customs (ICE) is now integrated into DHS. Don't mess with them. They can do unpleasant things.

The only rational reponse to a seizure letter is to shred it. If it's sent Certified, don't sign for it. If you see that letter at the PO, my advice is to act like you're a nut case and tell the postal clerk you don't believe in the guvvament. They'll return it to sender.

Trampy