Anyone used freedom shipping? I just want to send boxes & bikes
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Anyone used freedom shipping? I just want to send boxes & bikes
Hello,
We are flying out in 3 weeks on a student visa and just organising shipping our bits now. Freedom shipping seem to be coming in fairly well priced, we have been quoted £354 for 5 book carton boxes and 5 tea carton boxes plus a adult maoutain bike for an extra £69. Then between 80 and 160 ozzie dollars at the other end. Does this seem like a good price?
Or does anyone have any others to reccomend? All we want to take is roughly 10 boxes and a bike.
Thanks
We are flying out in 3 weeks on a student visa and just organising shipping our bits now. Freedom shipping seem to be coming in fairly well priced, we have been quoted £354 for 5 book carton boxes and 5 tea carton boxes plus a adult maoutain bike for an extra £69. Then between 80 and 160 ozzie dollars at the other end. Does this seem like a good price?
Or does anyone have any others to reccomend? All we want to take is roughly 10 boxes and a bike.
Thanks
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Re: Anyone used freedom shipping? I just want to send boxes & bikes
Hello,
We are flying out in 3 weeks on a student visa and just organising shipping our bits now. Freedom shipping seem to be coming in fairly well priced, we have been quoted £354 for 5 book carton boxes and 5 tea carton boxes plus a adult maoutain bike for an extra £69. Then between 80 and 160 ozzie dollars at the other end. Does this seem like a good price?
Or does anyone have any others to reccomend? All we want to take is roughly 10 boxes and a bike.
Thanks
We are flying out in 3 weeks on a student visa and just organising shipping our bits now. Freedom shipping seem to be coming in fairly well priced, we have been quoted £354 for 5 book carton boxes and 5 tea carton boxes plus a adult maoutain bike for an extra £69. Then between 80 and 160 ozzie dollars at the other end. Does this seem like a good price?
Or does anyone have any others to reccomend? All we want to take is roughly 10 boxes and a bike.
Thanks
Hi - i sent my boxes with freedom shipping. 4 tea chests and 16 book boxes and it cost me less than £500. They are the same company as Sevenseas (van and guys uniform all had seven seas on it). SO far i am impressed but there again ask me when they have arrived (or not )
Mandy x
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Re: Anyone used freedom shipping? I just want to send boxes & bikes
Hi - i sent my boxes with freedom shipping. 4 tea chests and 16 book boxes and it cost me less than £500. They are the same company as Sevenseas (van and guys uniform all had seven seas on it). SO far i am impressed but there again ask me when they have arrived (or not )
Mandy x
Mandy x
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YAY another one going to Bunbury we will be able to have regular meets with the sudden influx of people down there
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Are they very strict on sizes. I have something I wold like to ship but is slightly large then a bike box?
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Give them a ring - i had to break a tea chest down and reconstruct it to take some glass shelving - they were really good but need the final measurements to give you a price. they will also send out different size boxes if necessary
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Hello daunted, can i just ask did you use the economy boxes or the dearer ones? If you used the economy ones, were they any good?
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Hi there! yeah i just used the economy ones! they were very good but obviously i wont know HOW good until it arrives, hopefully in one piece
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Thanks for your help
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well everything has arrived - even the breadbin! WHY did i bring a breadbin
The only breakage i had was one glass milk jug which broke when i dropped it unpacking it The CD player wasnt too happy first day and wouldnt play but suspect it was abit damp and now its dried out is playing fine.
Only strange thing is that (bearing in mind i in WA) the ship docked in Fremantle on 30th December and left following day for Melbourne where it unloaded my stuff!!!!!!!!!!!! (boxes seen more of oz than me!) They then came rest of way by road. Apparently its the norm with freedom shipping but didnt make much difference in teh end i didnt really even want sight of the damned boxes again
The only breakage i had was one glass milk jug which broke when i dropped it unpacking it The CD player wasnt too happy first day and wouldnt play but suspect it was abit damp and now its dried out is playing fine.
Only strange thing is that (bearing in mind i in WA) the ship docked in Fremantle on 30th December and left following day for Melbourne where it unloaded my stuff!!!!!!!!!!!! (boxes seen more of oz than me!) They then came rest of way by road. Apparently its the norm with freedom shipping but didnt make much difference in teh end i didnt really even want sight of the damned boxes again