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Will carriers even take passports?
I'm on holiday in France and left some medicine at home. Couldn't get my wife to send it out without lying about what was in it, and do they xray or otherwise check some packages...?
My boss once left his suit in a hotel wardrobe in the US. We couldn't get a carrier to take it back to the UK.
It's hard to get non standard stuff shipped around the place.
frank9755-
Looks like he left the stuff in Germany, and was in Austria when he realised it.
Find a biggish courier firm closest to where you left it (not fedex and stuff, the ones that dispatch self employed people) explain situation, and they will find someone to do it, but it would cost hundreds of €. Or be really nice to the person in the Gas station and offer them/a friend money if they do it?
At least I am pretty sure the ones I use in Berlin would find someone. -
US to UK is different ball game to same country or neighbouring western european country. I got my bike box shipped from a hotel in Sevilla to Girona after my crash using hotel and courier company (well my missus did) and my bike is still in Portugal but another mate had picked that up after I collected it from a cop shop with a taxi. Basically, lots of stuff is possible if you want to spend the money and time doing it. I could've left the bike at the hotel and done the same thing with a courier bringing it back.
c.h.e.
hippy
All of this, nightmare to organize getting the stuff back, so easier to ride. And he really fucked up majorly. Never did any riding anywhere close to tcr level, but even on a normal audax important items management is something you learn to take seriously.
Something like tcr having a second id and second card hidden on the bike might be good if you tend to leave your stuff.
If he still had cash/was persuasive he could have paid a cab driver to get the stuff and find him later with the tracker?