Sending / Posting / Shipping a bike to/from abroad / overseas by post / courier

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hippy in reply to @TMcPain

What did you end up doing? Just wondering how feasible it would be to send a bike to Oz via post rather than wait for my next visit.

For what it's worth, I used an "unaccompanied baggage" service going from Oz to UK many years ago.

BikeFlights just use another courier - I think FedEx in USA - so I'm not sure what advantage they have over anyone else other than convenience of them knowing which service will take a bike box.

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TMcPain in reply to @hippy

Hi Hippy,

Sorry for the late reply. Currently packing up my life, slowly, as I depart in over a month now.
I decided not to ship anything ahead, I found a great deal with China Southern airline, which allowed me to add on extra luggage relatively inexpensively. ~US$175 for additional luggage all the way to Melb.
So I'm just going to bring it as additional luggage, packaging it in a box from my LBS.

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hippy in reply to @TMcPain

Cheers. Yeah, that's normally the best way. I've used Signapore and maybe Emirates in the past because they have a more generous baggage allowance - handy for a bike. But I don't know when I'll be going back so will probably just try and sell the bike rather than ship it.

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