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Mar 29th 2011 | 10:49 am

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Re: Taking candles into Australia

C'mon! It doesn't get THAT hot in a container. The stuff's insulated inside the wooden packing case thing in the first place. Something wrapped and placed in a box is going to be fine. Given you have to light candles to get them to melt then it's not going to get that hot, otherwise most stuff would arrive heat damaged and I can tell you that it doesn't.

Mar 29th 2011 | 11:33 am

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Re: Taking candles into Australia

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Originally Posted by Pollyana

I kid you not, my sister bought them for me years ago and I've still got one left, don't have the heart to burn it! Its about 8 inches high and has wax mushrooms growing out of the side of it

I've been told it's not so much about the length . . . it's more about the girth . . .

Mar 29th 2011 | 1:17 pm

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Re: Taking candles into Australia

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Originally Posted by DaveandLinda

Does anyone know if you are allowed to take candles into Australia? I can't see anything on the list of things you are not allowed to take in, but someone told me you can't. I have a couple of large, very ornately carved German candles, at least 35 years old, given to me by a German friend who passed away recently, so don't really want to part with them.

We did .... tonnes of them that the removalists got to before we did. They arrived safe and sound ..... not a quibble from customs.

Mar 29th 2011 | 2:06 pm

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Re: Taking candles into Australia

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Originally Posted by TiddlyPom

C'mon! It doesn't get THAT hot in a container. The stuff's insulated inside the wooden packing case thing in the first place. Something wrapped and placed in a box is going to be fine. Given you have to light candles to get them to melt then it's not going to get that hot, otherwise most stuff would arrive heat damaged and I can tell you that it doesn't.

it depends where the container is on the ship mate. I got candles that looked like a droopy dangler that needed viagra by the time they got here