Originally Posted by
nickydwuk
What about duck feather pillows?
Fetch 'em...
We took (newly cleaned and sweet smelling !) feather duvets and pillows to NZ. They were all packed up with the rest of the linen by the shippers and never questioned.
As Ian quite rightly says, MAF do have the right to inspect them, but it's highly unlikely.
The same goes for wood furniture and cane items such as a conservatory suite. If it's a treated piece of household furniture you shouldn't have any problems.
Once we arrived in NZ, the shippers NZ agent sent us a form that included a list of 'items to be declared'. It had been nearly 4 months since we had seen our household effects and I couldn't find the itinerary that I had been given from the UK shippers, so I just ticked the 'declared' boxes to the best of my memory and I have to be honest here and say that there were a few items that I'd forgotten about.
I experienced no problems whatsoever. Yes, we had a MAF bill of around $300, but I didn't consider that to be the end of the world.
Julie
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