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FGT
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 Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject: Shipping Goods From "Home" |
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Does anybody have any experience of shipping things from outside Turkey?
I intend to ship the contents of my ex-house in England to Turkey - not everything - I've discarded most electrical items and easily replaceable ones (like beds, sofas et al) but have pictures, furniture (technically antique but not valuable), a grandfather clock etc.
I anticipate some delays, problems and expense at customs but is there anything in particular that I should watch out for?
I'm particularly concerned that the bulk of things are inherited items, family heirlooms (again, not valuable per se other than sentimentally) and it's important that they can be retrieved from Turkey upon my demise.
Any advice would be gratefully received. |
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tararu
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About four years ago, my parents sent me two very large boxes by freight. They paid $400 Australian dollars to send them. It cost me $400us to collect them from a shipping port out in the sticks somewhere. We had to hire a guy at the port to do all our work for us because apparently you have no choice. Then of course, every person we went through tried to cause problems for us so, we had to give money to our special guy so that we could bribe everyone and get them to release my boxes.
Nothing went missing, but by god it was a bloody rip off. |
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Rabbinical
Joined: 21 Aug 2006
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Location: NE Turkey
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| Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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| What about shipping/mailing regular parcel post to Turkey? I've heard mixed opinions--though mostly bad. |
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dagi
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:59 am Post subject: |
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Post/regular parcels:
I did post four 20kg parcels from the NL to Turkey and everything arrived. There were mainly books and teaching materials in them, nothing new or expensive.
I mailed it to work and they send someone with me to the post office where you have to pick up your parcels. Everthing went well and the guy there wasn't even bothered to look into all the boxes, I just had to open two of them and they even resealed them. |
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tavsan0
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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Location: �anakkale, Turkey
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MMmMmMm tavsan0 recommendsSs....
The Deadly Cargo ( aka 'tarantulas- the deadly Cargo') 1977
Directed by Stuart Hagmann.
An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths...... |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| tavsan0 wrote: |
MMmMmMm tavsan0 recommendsSs....
The Deadly Cargo ( aka 'tarantulas- the deadly Cargo') 1977
Directed by Stuart Hagmann.
An airplane carring coffee beans from South America has some unpleasant stowaways: a hoard of tarantulas which overcome the pilots as the airplane is flying over an orange-producing town in California. The airplane crashes, and the unlucky inhabitants of the town release the poisonous spiders into their midst. Once the town's officials discover that the tarantulas are responsible for several deaths...... |
Tarantulas aren't poisionous.
(any chance you cna get a smaller avatar? YOu make the threads really hard to read!) |
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tararu
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:25 am Post subject: |
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| Mmmmm...that story line sounds strangely familiar. Actually, l am pretty sure that l brought back a huntsman (large hairy spider) from Australia a couple of years ago. Luckily it wasn't a white tailed spider as their bite makes your flesh rot. |
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tavsan0
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:53 am Post subject: Re : |
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Baba Alex ...
"any chance you cna get a smaller avatar? YOu make the threads really hard to read!"
- Oh dear! My bunny pic giving you 'cross' vision sir?? How's this?...better?
just make sure you keep your dog on it's lead!!!
"Tarantulas aren't poisionous."
What do expect from a 70's tv 'terror' movie??...They also produced many other dubious classics during the 70's like...Killer Bees, Empire of the ants, Squirm! (killer worms!!!)....I guess the logic was...if it has 8 legs or squirms...it's horror movie material!!!
"Mmmmm...that story line sounds strangely familiar. Actually, l am pretty sure that l brought back a huntsman (large hairy spider) from Australia a couple of years ago. Luckily it wasn't a white tailed spider as their bite makes your flesh rot." -Sounds like the makings of a new killer B-movie!!! |
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Baba Alex
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:23 am Post subject: Re: Re : |
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| tavsan0 wrote: |
Baba Alex ...
"any chance you cna get a smaller avatar? YOu make the threads really hard to read!"
- Oh dear! My bunny pic giving you 'cross' vision sir?? How's this?...better?
just make sure you keep your dog on it's lead!!!
"Tarantulas aren't poisionous."
What do expect from a 70's tv 'terror' movie??...They also produced many other dubious classics during the 70's like...Killer Bees, Empire of the ants, Squirm! (killer worms!!!)....I guess the logic was...if it has 8 legs or squirms...it's horror movie material!!! |
Yes ofcourse, one should never question the internal logic of a B-Movie. Have you ever seen any of those "Intelligent" Sci-fi films from the 70s,
The Andromida Strain (killer virus) Phase 4 (ants try to take over the world). Both great films.
Cheers for sorting the avatar by the way. It makes life much easier for the pooch. |
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tavsan0
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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Location: �anakkale, Turkey
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| Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:32 am Post subject: re : Cheers for sorting the avatar by the way. It makes life |
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"Cheers for sorting the avatar by the way. It makes life much easier for the pooch."
My bunny is still bigger than your pooch sir!1 So best keep it out of harms way...My bunny is prone to snack on anything smaller than itself. 
Oh yes have seen them and many just as bad (good). Sci-fi horrors often reflect (and feed on) fears of western society at that given time... 50's & 60's Atomic Monster movies....etc....
There's a study on it by a guy called Kim Newman in his book "Nightmare Movies"
Did I just derail this thread???
If so sorry...just pretend I'm not here! |
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dmb
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| Tavsan, do you have a film club at school. If so, how many kids have you traumatized? |
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tavsan0
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"Tavsan, do you have a film club at school. If so, how many kids have you traumatized?" - What a great idea! I must talk to my manager about this!  |
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