When we arrived 4 years ago we had to go to Customs and Excise in Peterborough with our good to follow lists and packing lists. The removals company met us there and an official went through the lists before releasing the container contents to us.

Does this still happen? I was talking to some people who are getting their furniture etc today but they don't seem to have gone to customs. So I'm puzzled.

We had to go to the customs building by Union station in Toronto. We had to get our goods to follow form that was stamped at the airport when we landed looked at and fill in another very brief form. The very nice lady then phoned our removals company to release the container.

This obviously happened a fair bit as the two of them appeared to be on first name terms.

Yep, that's what happened, and both of us had to be there too. It turned out that our container didn't have the right documents from the airport so we weren't allowed to have it until those documents were sorted out.

I hope this move goes smoothly for these people.

So was it just Zoe and I who had to go to customs??

we is spesshul

this is true my friend.

We only had boxes shipped over but we had to go to Customs in Van to sign something or other before they could be released to us - this was back in 2007 though so things may have changed?

No, we had to do the whole Customs thing too - with bells on. They searched our container. Now that must mean I am speshal too

Extra spesshul if you had a cavity search

well ours was searched ( possibly maybe ) AND at one point we didn't know which city it had arrived in ............................. so there

we moved from UK in 2002 and had to go through same procedure, and we moved again from USA to Canada in 2008 and had to do the same thing again-so yes its still going on I believe !

You must have seen Pat at Customs. Did she call Lori? which company recieved you shipment in Canada?

We had to go to Trenton Air Force Base (after doing the airport thing first when we landed) to do the customs thing.....
We took our 2 year grand daughter with us and they spent more time playng with her and telling us about their young kids, they stamped it and we were home 30 mins later.

cool , any nice pilots ?

lol all girlies so no...