Sending Books And Documents To Thailand

[fft100]

Hi,

I want to send about 80kg of old/used books and A4 documents to thailand. I was planning on sending them in 4 * 20KG boxes using the parcel approach.

The question is what happens at BKK regarding duty and the rest.

The documents are company and related investment stuff from other countries - with no value apart from the A4 paper.

The books have all been used personally. some investment books and others about all subjects (cricket etc).

I have a 1 year non-immigrant B visa, but no work permit.

If i put my thai address on them and send them in, will there be a problem. Does anyone have any experience of this ?

If anyone thinks this should be in a different forum, then feel free to move.

Thanks

[BambinA]

It will be fine with your book's parcels with TH addy

(just dont put any bucks among it)

[billzant]

Dear ft100,

In June I sent unaccompanied freight from Nigeria to Bangkok. These were personal items, and had to be cleared through customs. I used a freight agent here in Bangkok, and he needed my passport. I realise this is not parcels. Is it different?

I don't know.

Hope you are keeping well,

All the Best

Bill Z

[qualtrough]

I would use the mail to send those. Do not use a courier service like DHL, Fedex and the like as they are much more likely to attract the attention of customs. There have been threads on this before. If possible send the documents separately as there should absolutely be no duty on those. The post office will deliver to anyone and don't care a whit about your visa status, etc.

[sbk]

Hi,

I want to send about 80kg of old/used books and A4 documents to thailand. I was planning on sending them in 4 * 20KG boxes using the parcel approach.

The question is what happens at BKK regarding duty and the rest.

The documents are company and related investment stuff from other countries - with no value apart from the A4 paper.

The books have all been used personally. some investment books and others about all subjects (cricket etc).

I have a 1 year non-immigrant B visa, but no work permit.

If i put my thai address on them and send them in, will there be a problem. Does anyone have any experience of this ?

If anyone thinks this should be in a different forum, then feel free to move.

Thanks

Where from? In the US they have something called the M Bag, surface mail (2 months) book rate, works out to about $1/lb. I have sent used books to myself every year for the past 6-7 years and so far have only had one bag go missing (my fault, I only put the label on the outside). Since I started being careful and bagging and taping stacks of 5 books each, and then labeling each bundled stack with my Thai address I have had none go missing. Max waiting time has been 3 months. I have never paid customs duty on my bags of books.

The paperwork you might want to send seperately, something a bit more secure?