Shipping to Oz

[Bruce Fielding]

I know it's been raised before, but does anyone know a cheap and reliable way to ship stuff to Australia?

[angusfaldo]

What size? Packet of polos or a 3 piece suite?

[308gt4]

how big Bruce ?

The Timeout magazine and the other Oz magazines in London have the best deals but it does depend on the size. I shipped a 7 series BM to Oz for a thousand pounds including insurance.

[Bruce Fielding]

Around six cases of stuff - about 9 cubic feet/ 3 cubic metres?

[Fatboy]

A really huge catapault? I believe the oxford catapault society may have some going spare?

[MikeyT]

Email lovemytvr (Neal Garrett) - he's in the shipping business and will be able to provide you with an accurate ballpark figure (if that's not a straight contradiction in terms )

[incorrigible]

Bruce Fielding said: Around six cases of stuff - about 9 cubic feet/ 3 cubic metres?

Errm, 9 cubic feet is only 1/3 of a cubic metre

Sorry to be a bit of a pedant

[bruce fielding]

You're probably right. I once ordered gravel to cover the front garden to a depth of about three inches, when this huge truck arrived and the driver told me that I would have gravel up to my armpits! Not good with cubes (unless we're talking engine capacities!)

[kend]

Pickfords have a small load service that goes by sea, takes up to 3 months and not expensive. Airfreight would be about £300 as long as it is not too heavy
hope this helps.
ken

[Aprisa]

Bruce, If you give the weight as well as the cube then I can give you a quote, also need the nearest city.
Nick

[robkola]

Make sure you get it all insured - a mate moved his stuff back to NZ - saved on insurance and they helped themselves to about half his stuff!

[nevpugh308]

bruce fielding said: You're probably right. I once ordered gravel to cover the front garden to a depth of about three inches, when this huge truck arrived and the driver told me that I would have gravel up to my armpits! Not good with cubes (unless we're talking engine capacities!)

I'm curious ... what happened ?!? Can you get to your front door now or not ?!?

[LOVEMYTVR]

Bruce,

Cheapest way of shipping is by boat - I can give you a quote if you can let me know: Where from in the UK and where to in AU ?? Also cube would help and do the goods need packing??

Let me know
Ta
Neal

[Bruce Fielding]

nevpugh308 said:

bruce fielding said: You're probably right. I once ordered gravel to cover the front garden to a depth of about three inches, when this huge truck arrived and the driver told me that I would have gravel up to my armpits! Not good with cubes (unless we're talking engine capacities!)

I'm curious ... what happened ?!? Can you get to your front door now or not ?!?

Fortunately the guy driving the tipper truck actually knew what he was doing and only tipped out a fraction of the load he had - which was about the the right amount! I had to pay for him to ship the rest of it back to the depot though (although I didn't pay for the whole load!)