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To give you some context, I was on a cycling holiday with some friends in Italy and we had, at the hotel's guidance, stored our bike boxes in their garage. One morning we discovered they'd gone, having been taken by the binmen who'd assumed they were rubbish.
We sourced some cardboard boxes from a local bike shop, but weren't happy flying back with our bikes in them so tried to arrange for a courier to take them instead but none of the local courier companies would take them. In the end, I had to ask a friend, who ran a courier company in the UK, to ship them back. It cost £250, even at mate's rates.