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Mashimaro
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 6:53 pm Post subject: sending stuff to Australia |
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Anyone had experience shipping things to Australia? I'd like to know how long it takes and more importantly how much it costs per kg or whatever.
help me pleeeease |
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TJ
Joined: 10 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2003 9:45 pm Post subject: Quarantine restrictions. |
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Just a word of advice on sending 'things' to Australia.
If you are like my wife and I you have been saving cardboard boxes to pack things into. Whatever you do don't use any boxes that may have contained any kind of food. We posted some boxes and received a firm but polite note from the Aus. quarantine service telling us that we had contravened the quarantine laws. Apparently the boxes we used had previously contained food.
On reflection the authorities were quite justified in taking this attitude. Australia has an enviably low number of animal and plant diseases and all efforts to keep Aus free from nasties are well worth any slight inconvenience. |
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Hoju Nick
Joined: 28 Jun 2003
Location: Standing on the outside, looking in.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:28 am Post subject: |
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My wife sent a heap of stuff via Korea Post EMS - about 10000-11000 won a kilo. I can't remember how much for the EMS boxes. It all turned up in Sydney about a week-and-a-half later.
Her mum sent some stuff over - 2 boxes of chilli powder, seaweed and dried chillies. A week later, there it was at Aust Post!
Keep your barcode and you can track it on the EMS website - then the Aust Post one. |
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