Miami had 51 flights reporting waits at customs exceeding two hours and four flights approaching or topping three hours.

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With customs officers on hand 24 hours a day, the time needed to buy goods in Greece, or take delivery of containers arriving by train from the port of Salonika, should be slashed.

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From March 5 to 11, passengers on 260 flights experienced Customs wait times of more than two hours, with some waits lasting more than three hours, the agency said.

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Hundreds of thousands - possibly millions - of teachers, civil servants, health workers, students, banking staff, air traffic controllers, customs officials, weather forecasters, and others - will stop work for 24 hours for a variety of reasons: from pay to public sector reform.

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