Is it worth shipping back a box full of items?

[Hal65]

For those of you guys who've looked into shipping back stuff you acquired while over in Thailand, what were the costs for sea freight? Right now I'm weighing the costs/benefits of shipping back about 50 pounds of extra stuff that I can't take on the plane.

[cooked]

50 pounds? That's one suitcase on most airlines. Google excess baggage and your airline.

[Hal65]

50 pounds? That's one suitcase on most airlines. Google excess baggage and your airline.

I mean 50 pounds/1 box over the airline limits. Let's exclude the airline as a possibility for this; I want to hear from people who've used freight carriers.

[jonesthebaker]

50 pounds? That's one suitcase on most airlines. Google excess baggage and your airline.

I mean 50 pounds/1 box over the airline limits. Let's exclude the airline as a possibility for this; I want to hear from people who've used freight carriers.

i also would be interested as i have a few items that wont fit in a suitcase - paintings etc !

[cooked]

I contacted a UK firm that picked up my stuff in a remote village in Isaan and got it to a remote village in Switzerland with no problems. Movecorp.

[JusMe]

There are other threads about sending material. I use ThaiPost, which will handle boxes up to 30 kg each, although you need to confirm the receiving postal service will accept something that size.

Sorry I don't have the URL, but you can do a search and find all the information about the postal service. It is really quite good - I'm in Canada now and have just received two boxes about 25 kg each which were sent by surface mail late in March.

[Tanis]

Last week I sent my marriage photo, with frame, back to America. It weighed 6 kg (roughly 15 pounds) and I was charged 1300 baht. I should have it within the next 3 months

[wolf5370]

You can sent it shipping as a part container. I was quoted to Europe, about 9k for first metre cubed and 5.5k for each meter cubed thereafter (that's baht of course) - that includes everything except import taxes at destination and any storage fees. That was from CM to Spain by the way - to UK was similar. If you have enough, which you don't by the sounds of it, a 20 foot container is about 180k including paperwork and packing. You might find it cheaper - just guide prices I was quoted a month ago.

[craigt3365]

You might want to investigate what they airlines would charge for that extra piece. Or for overweight bags. Might work out economically to do this.

I had a friend send 13 boxes to the US a few years ago. 12 made it. One ended up in Spain and she got a request for $100 to get the box out of "customs". Crazy.

[jonesthebaker]

Last week I sent my marriage photo, with frame, back to America. It weighed 6 kg (roughly 15 pounds) and I was charged 1300 baht. I should have it within the next 3 months

how wide/long is it? and how did you package it - i mean did you use a box and bubble wrap etc? did you just take ti to post office - EMS or whatever?

would appreciate any advice

thanks

[Tanis]

Last week I sent my marriage photo, with frame, back to America. It weighed 6 kg (roughly 15 pounds) and I was charged 1300 baht. I should have it within the next 3 months

how wide/long is it? and how did you package it - i mean did you use a box and bubble wrap etc? did you just take ti to post office - EMS or whatever?

would appreciate any advice

thanks

sorry for the delayed response. the marriage frame was approx. 37 inches wide/24 inches long and 1 1/2 inches thick.

[Ruin]

Surface mail in three or more small packages would be best and quickest.