Not much to report from yesterday other than the purchase of a cheapo bed frame from Warehouse for $80. We thought we'd try it out and maybe use it as a spare if it was a bit rubbish. It was.
This morning we emailed NZ Van Lines to confirm our new address. We got a phone call about 30 minutes later saying that we'd need to show our passports - all 8 of them - for customs purposes so we wandered down to their depot which was just off Hewlett Road (everything is off Hewlett Road is seems) and flashed the passports and filled in the forms. A chat with the chap behind the desk indicated we were likely to get caned for GST on the Dyson since it was "new". Apparently if we'd taken it out of the box we'd have got away with it. We didn't take it out since we didn't want any issues with quarantine which we would have got if it was in a used condition. It seems I'll also have to pay duty on the scotch. Rats. I wondered if it was possible to get a refund off HM Customs and Excise, but a quick Google revealed that I was having a laugh. Nothing hurts more than being taxed twice.
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