jollyswagman

Hi there hopefully by the time we have finished selling/giving away household contents all we will have left is 4-5 teachests of personal memento's etc and was wondering if anybody has had experience of shipping this sort amount and how much it cost/and what sort of service they received ,many thx for any replies , swagman

Burbage

You'll be looking to share a shipping container.

MTPockets

I shipped boxes and personal things. Anglo Pacific excess baggage. They were fine - although no doubt others would have been fine too as not much involved.

Had 1 large suitcases, tea-chest of hifi seperates, two large standing speakers, 3 book boxes (smaller than teachests), bicycle and surfboard. Worked out to be about 33 cubic feet.

Price was £500 pounds to Sydney: approx 400 shipping and 100 liability costs (2,000 cover). In addition to that was Oz quarantine charge A$175. Another option if you're flying BA is to stick it all in suitcases and pay (approx) £75 per extra suitcase to take it with you on the flight.

rosscov1970

Try www.ezdelivery.co.uk.

Haven't used them myself, but heard good reports and seem cheap.

bigAPE

Why bother, they sell them here.

Flutterby

Hmmm, I used EZ delivery to send out 3 boxes on 12th January by air freight, supposed to be a 1-2 day service. They use DHL. I still don't have the boxes; they dropped off the tracking radar 4 days after arriving in Melbourne and have only managed to track them down through contacting customs myself so might have them by the weekend. My advice, use a carrier like Excess Baggage that specialise in sending stuff to Australia and actually know what they are doing!!!! I wish I had!

(If you did decide to use them, it was £290 for 3 book boxes totalling 57kg)