08 Jun 2013 11:28 AM:
My sister moved back from Spain to the UK a couple of weeks ago and has been waiting for her furniture to follow.
Yesterday morning her furniture was impounded in Customs in Poole and the entire load searched. This was because the drivers were found to be carrying drugs.
She has the furniture now after a very long delay but two large items of furniture are missing. All of the boxes have been searched and re-sealed by customs and some have been damaged. She hasn't unpacked yet, but she is expecting to find breakages as according to the driver who met the load everything was "dragged off" by customs to be searched.
The load had been sub-contracted out to Fastcat Removals by another firm as they could not get the furniture over as quickly as she wanted.
A few years ago some neighbours of mine had their load impounded in France for a similar reason. I can't remember the name of the removal firm they used and I don't know if they ever got their stuff back.
Its a very worrying situation because unless we drive the stuff over ourselves we have to put our trust in other people not to try to smuggle drugs or anything else in our precious belongings.
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Warning - removals back to the UK
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