Keep us up to date with your progress as your blog will be of interest ( and hopefully help) to others that will have the same experience in the future as it is obvious that "somebody somewhere" has decided to cause this problem (and resulting bottleneck) as the free flow of imports that worked so smoothly for many years has now almost ground to a standstill.
It is probably not gone down too well with the staff at Border Control much either - I cannot imagine that they will be too happy about having the place choked-up, or with having to deal with the increased level of questions and complaints about the system now failing to work as efficiently as it should.
................another government cock-up? - or some jumped-up "jobsworth" that wants to make a name for himself?
If the latter is the case, then he or she has succeeded - but probably not in gaining the name they would have hoped for
