Shipping stuff abroad

[dreg]

I'll be sending a largish package to the UK. I'm in no rush to get it home, so whatever is cheaper is best.

My package is about a cubic meter and weigh about 50kg


Any ideas on prices, am I looking at over or under 100K?

I found a UK company (http://www.wedelivertheworld.co.uk/) charging 140K to ship from the UK and 220k to shop to the UK. So I guess a J company would be better

[Tsuru]

My package is about a cubic meter and weigh about 50kg

Da-yum!

[Iraira]

I'll be sending a largish package to the UK. I'm in no rush to get it home, so whatever is cheaper is best.

My package is about a cubic meter and weigh about 50kg


Any ideas on prices, am I looking at over or under 100K?

I found a UK company (http://www.wedelivertheworld.co.uk/) charging 140K to ship from the UK and 220k to shop to the UK. So I guess a J company would be better

I'm not going to ask about whether the 50kg is cut or uncut, but you have you looked into a container vessel shipping? It takes longer, a lot longer, but it might be cheaper...depends if your buyers in the UK are willing to wait a little longer for their stash to arrive.

[dreg]

Any links?

[FG Lurker]

Break it into smaller boxes. Sending one 50kg box really limits your options.

For example you can send a 10kg box via EMS for 16,200yen. 81,000 for 5 boxes, they'll be home in 7-10 days.

http://ems-post.jp/index.php?page=charge/cha/c_list02#europe

[Adhesive]

Kind of off-topic...but my father-in-law (the crazy Japanese cowboy I've alluded to in other posts) recently decided he wanted to retire in Sri Lanka. He spent $6k to ship a crate full of his shit over there. Well, he quickly ran into the corruption that generally accompanies third-world countries, and was being nickle and dimed by the locals everywhere he turned. Europeans he met who lived there kept telling him to get the fuck out. It was getting pretty bad, I guess in Sri Lanka Japanese people just have a big "sucker" sign attached to them by default. So, finally he decides he will move back to Japan, only to find out that they won't let him ship 90% of his shit out of Sri Lanka. So he will be forced to abandon it.

I feel sorry for him, but at the same time, why are some Japanese so damn naive?

[Greji]

I feel sorry for him, but at the same time, why are some Japanese so damn naive?

Sad and that topic could be a whole new thread, but just another point on this, a lot of the J-people who have jumped on the fad to retire in places overseas because Japan is so expensive and it's so "cheap to live" overseas and in some places, lavishly, run into the same problems. They get nickled and dimed to death for unexpected things not covered in the JTB travel guides. Then, for the older couples who survive quite well because they are together and have each other to interact with, there is another problem. When one of them dies (old people do that you know), the surving spouse is left alone and in most cases, will not have the money to be able to cover the high cost of return to Japan to set up a home and subsequently be able to live because he, or she, is beyond hiring age when they arrive home, so they are basically stranded.

The naivity is amazing, but living in a sociey covered by a news media that preaches that the rest of the world revolves around you can easily create that. Takechan's post go along way in pointing out what some thinking is like in the world of the flowers.

[Adhesive]

Sad and that topic could be a whole new thread, but just another point on this, a lot of the J-people who have jumped on the fad to retire in places overseas because Japan is so expensive and it's so "cheap to live" overseas and in some places, lavishly, run into the same problems.

Yeah, he is a divorcee who left the house and land to his ex-wife. By that time, there was just no way he could afford to buy a new house in Japan, so he bought land in Sri Lanka and was going to build his "dream" home. I guess he wasn't able to buy the land himself and had to go through an in-between. He thinks he will be able to sell the land and get his money back...but I'm willing to bet it's a lost cause. He's going to end up losing a lot of money due to this hair-brained idea. It's the kind of lesson you probably don't want to be learning this late in life.

/thread-jack

[Oradea]

As for the shipping, have you tried pakmail?

http://www.pakmail.co.jp/en/

my friend used this to ship shit to canada.
And her Package was about the same size as yours, although a little heftier..........