Would it be too much to ask you to provide the gist of the German-thread, or, even explain what "it" refers to above?
German customs is doing spot checks and stops packages that are not compliant to local German laws.
Some of the violations for import are: not providing a German manual (Fehlende deutsche Anleitung) and not have the correct regulatory papers and stickers like CE & ROHS (Konformitätserklärung von Hersteller)
All of this was predicted last year when Josh attacked the other ASIC vendors of not having the FCC and CE compliance. BFL was going to quickly rush their almost finished product and have all the needed paperwork "in two weeks". We are 8 months later and no paperwork and guess who's shipments get confiscated and blocked at borders?
Avalon shipped 900 units and they were clever enough to have the right wording on the commercial invoice.