It's been a rough year, Im not even living in my house yet, I am in a 19ft travel trailer. But I am lucky and it is mostly dry inside, the front door of the actual house let in water in the winds of this last storm, something else to put "on the list" ( ha !) The winds shook the partialy built goat stalls ( the barn burned down in the fire) so hard it ripped the longer wall off of its connection to the shorter wall perpendicular, pulled the framing nails out - I am now off to a hardware store.

Storms like this are normal, not usually this early in the year, and not always do we have them this bad, yet again, I have seen worse. I have seen an inch and hour of rain once, for far too many hours, that is when the roads kind of melt away. You look out the window and cant see for how thick the rain is. But that was only once. The rain falls all in one part of the year, and most of it in intense rain storms, that is the nature of this location. Normal at my location is 60-100 inches a year and most of that over a couple months. I should have had a few more weeks to get a top plate and rafters on that, but it is what it is, and who knows who I can hire to help finish it anyways.

Many, if not all countries, ask for a phytosanitary certificate which may need to indicate in what way the seeds were rid of soil particles, pathogens, insects, algae, fungi, etc. Methods such as methylbromide fumigation (not practical for home gardeners) may be required. Some countries are very strict. Australia, for example, does not commonly let plant matter get by them.

Even between states here in the U.S., there are a lot of seed & plant shipping regulations that I would guess most people have no idea of. Here is a source where one can look at what each state requires or forbids. https://nationalplantboard.org/laws-and-regulations/ In the US states, though, it is not the post office that enforces these matters. An awful lot seems to come down to the honor system, plus threat of being sued by, say, the pecan growers whose orchards were infested by a pest that came in scion wood you sent them.