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    Sending stuff to LOS from UK

    Morning all,

    So, I'm in the UK for a month and I've been shopping.
    So much so that I need to send about 30 Kg of brass goods by courier or the like.

    There's a plethora of companies on the interweb but I wondered if any one had any recommendations based on personal experience.

    I'm looking for a door to door service that will deliver within a couple of weeks.

    Cheers

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    I shipped a box about that weight few years back with DHL. Think there are cheaper but service was very good. Will the items be subject to duty?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    I shipped a box about that weight few years back with DHL. Think there are cheaper but service was very good. Will the items be subject to duty?
    That's a good question and I'm not sure.
    It's all old brass fittings from my father's' house, a port hole and a couple of brass navigation lights.

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    Interesting pieces. Shipper would know.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Interesting pieces. Shipper would know.

    Yes, I hope so.

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    I got about 20kg to send too. i've looked at the options, and read the reviews.

    Convenient to get some first hand experiences

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    Quote Originally Posted by crackerjack101 View Post
    a port hole
    In the wall above your freezer


    Quote Originally Posted by crackerjack101 View Post
    and a couple of brass navigation lights.
    As lighting located on your deck above the patio...that would be cool.

    Just picturing it in my head

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    Why not just pay the excess luggage and take it to the airport yourself?

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    Cost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norton View Post
    Will the items be subject to duty?
    Quote Originally Posted by crackerjack101 View Post
    That's a good question and I'm not sure.
    Have it addressed to a Thai, written in Thai, and sent by a Thai, written in Thai. And marked as a gift.


    Customs are (slightly) less inclined to extort their own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Cost.
    BA £20-40 1st 23kg bag second bag £36-60
    Show me a courier that will deliver door to door cardiff to Chiang Rai cheaper ,Ciz me ol mate.

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    This lot can do it for 30kg @ £158 in 3 days.
    https://www.unibaggage.com/?discode=...0776-414674937

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    Obviously people don't take everything they want to move from a-b with them on a plane because of cost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack meoff View Post
    This lot can do it for 30kg @ £158 in 3 days.
    https://www.unibaggage.com/?discode=...0776-414674937
    Umm..yeah that's not excess luggage is it.

    It's a service offered to people with their shit together enough to avoid paying for excess luggage at the airport.

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    Therefore i put up another option Ciz,
    Had a bad day at kindergarten mate?

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    Who were you again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    Umm..yeah that's not excess luggage is it.


    Door to Door Luggage Shipping


    Uni Baggage are Experts at Shipping Luggage around the World. We make worldwide luggage delivery convenient for Students, Businesses, Holidaymakers, the Forces and Seasonaires.
    We will arrange a collection of your excess baggage


    Door to Door Luggage Shipping


    Uni Baggage are Experts at Shipping Luggage around the World. We make worldwide luggage delivery convenient for Students, Businesses, Holidaymakers, the Forces and Seasonaires.
    We will arrange a collection of your excess baggage


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    If you know what the term means then you'll know they're not using the term correctly.

    Advertisers do that, eh?

    excess baggage noun [ U ]

    UK ​ /ɪkˌses ˈbęɡ.ɪdʒ/ US ​ /ɪkˌses ˈbęɡ.ɪdʒ/ uk also excess luggage

    bags that weigh more than the allowed amount for a single passenger, or the money you are charged to take them onto an aircraft:
    We had to pay excess baggage.
    He arrived with 88 pounds of excess baggage.

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dic...excess-baggage

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    Good lord, Brummies

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    Good lord, people whose understanding of words comes from advertisements.

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    And ciz helps OP by ??????
    Sober up man and get a grip.

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    Duct tape 3 for a tenner.





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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack meoff View Post
    Good lord, Brummies

    fuck off sweaty, he's a 6 fingered, web toed yamyam

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack meoff View Post
    And ciz helps OP by ??????
    Well, I've pointed out that you first suggested the op simply pay excess baggage.

    Have you ever actually done that?

    I did once, 25 years ago from the UK to BKK and 20 kilos cost my company 350 quid.

    You then moved the goalposts and put up a link for a company that works out much cheaper than paying for excess baggage.

    So there was basically a degree of confusion caused by the fact that you didn't understand what the term 'excess baggage' means.

    I helped you understand this, though you're too full of yourself to admit it, and possibly I helped the op by clearing this up too.

    No surprise to see 'pilot light' on this like a fly on shit either.

    Good day to you.

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    £350 for 20kg

    You are talking all funny there ciz, I| do think you need to listen to people sometimes.
    I did it last year uk to smily land paid online 23kg for a mere £60.

    Or am I lying?

    Look on any airline baggage site you lazy old toad

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