Re: Burning Stuff (Quarantine Costs)
On 6 Aug 2004 14:22:13 -0700, (Schmuck)
wrote:
>What AQIS can't tell me are the costs of fumigation and/or destruction
>of property. Can anybody share their own stories, and let me know who
>you've dealt with that does this sort of thing so I can get a good
>idea?
We had a small pillow stuffed with lavender that the packers included
- they were told not to, but keeping an eye on them proved harder than
we expected.
We were given the choice of destroy for ~$70 or fumigate for ~$160 we
elected destroy.
All our wood came through OK - furniture, carvings, chopping boards.
They seem to open your container and pick out about 20% of items for a
physical check. We had an urgent phone call for the lock code for a
briefcase (remembered) and the location of a key for a trunk
(somewhere in the rest of the packing so lock destroyed).
Getting through the customs & quarantine queues will take as long as
the ship does to come from Europe.
nick <dot> partridge <at> dart <dot> net <dot> au
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