madsad

we are only going to send one wee box over to Aus, with personal effects, photos, chersished teddies, etc, looking for some advice on who would be the best people to do this with.

Cheers

Mr Madsad.

tiredwithtwins

not got so far as actually sending anything yet, but i did discover an online calculator for the cost of shipping small amounts on John Masons website - they seem to be recommended by a couple of users on here. try a search. camt remember the webiste address but google will!!

sue

teach

Hi Mr Madsad,
As Sue says try John Masons. Hopefully there will be link on here too.

Sarah

http://www.johnmason.com

madsad

i assume your not heading for earls court? will be quiet tonite on here i reckon, if we had known in advance that a lot of folk from here were goin, we would have made more of an effort to get there!! just for the drink mind!!

sunny_samantha

Hi
Just wanted to say that we shipped with John Masons and have serious reservations now that our things have arrived. Also real problems, not so much with us contacting them but with them replying to us! Would not be keen to recommend...will post a full report on here once we have everything sorted with them. They seem to have a non-existent customer service once things go wrong! It would be easier trying to contact Elvis!!!!
Having said that others may differ
Susan

teach

Nope not at Earls Court, Mr Madsad. Andrew has had his first weekend off in months so wanted to spend some time at home with him.
Sarah

tiredwithtwins

hehe....we're the opposite...mr twt is working - pity cos he would have like to have seen it (he's really warming up to the idea now!!)

sue

Lisa & Rich

Mr Madsad

We are also only planning to take a few boxes and I have noticed that there are a number of excess baggage companies advertised in TNT (mag for backpackers). I got a quote online from www.excess-baggage.com

I have not seen any mention of these companies of this site so don't know how reliable they are.

Lisa

jjonboy

If you really do have just the one box then i would just send it parcelforce worldwide (via your local post office) we did this for our two boxes initially and it cost us about 200 pounds and arrived in seven days (they fly it out)

I understand shipping stuff is less than half the cost though.... up to you????

Cheers

Jonboy

chew

We used them for the move,very good service

Pollyana

I used Excesss Baggage Co for one box by airfreight at the last minute, dropped it at the Heathrow office as I flew out. Excellent service, everything in good condition.

mlbonner

I used http://www.sevenseasworldwide.com/uk/index.html and found them to be more that good.

Jaykay

You could maybe consider declaring it as excess luggage and putting it on the same plane that you're flying out on.

You could then just pick it up when you land. That way you don't have to wait for it and worry that it won't arrive