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raggedyanne · 27/05/2010 18:12

Hi there,

Does anyone have any experience of relocating from UK to NZ.We dont have too much to move, mainly books and kids stuff, no furniture so we dont really need a container,are there other options?

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shelscrape · 27/05/2010 19:22

Hello, I'm about to do this too! You might find it's actually cheaper and quicker to have a container. Lots of good firms out there. I've had quotes from PSS and Anglopacific. YOu can opt to share containers with someone, but you will ahve to wait until the share person is ready to go too.

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 28/05/2010 11:25

IIWY, I would carefully go through what you intend to move. It could be that the stuff you think you can't leave behind/live without is actually expendable or cheaper to buy on arrival than shipping. When we left Bangkok to come to Switzerland, our shipping got over looked . We spent 10 weeks waiting for it to arrive. Our dd was astonished that she didn't need as much as she thought. In fact, we still have boxes in our cellar that we haven't opened. I suggested to dh that we just bin them rather than sort through them and ship them to Belgium.

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raggedyanne · 28/05/2010 12:46

Thank you both, I just really want to take my books as I wont ever be coming back, I might just ship a few boxes.Do you do that from the post office and is it very expensive kreecher?Shelscrape are you going to NZ too?

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kreecherlivesupstairs · 31/05/2010 08:01

Not much help, but could you put your books in as excess baggage/ i remember when we flew back from Melbourne to Bangkok we had a huge plastic house thing for dd. The airline advised us that we should use an excess baggage company which was located at the airport. We did and it was peanuts compared to putting iton the plane as excess. I'd look in the yellow pages and phone for advice. Good luck.

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shelscrape · 31/05/2010 13:28

Hi raggedyanne, yes we're off the NZ too! We're taking the entire contents of our house because 1. I can't be arsed to buy things all over again 2. everything costs so much more in NZ 3. DS needs some familiar things around him I think.
When are you going?

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