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

Having said that they probably send it via parcel force (which is Royal Mail's own courier).

the place i took my box was an agent for parcel force as well.14kg, so weight not an issue, box just too big ...it's odd because a lot bikes arrive by post

Sound like he's simply being obtuse.

my wife tried a a different PO, different price. £53 to germany..... go figure

Hi. Did anyone use Transglobal recently? Any reviews for their services?

Anyone got rough measurements and weight of a packaged bike so I can get an idea of price?

Freedom-shipping.com

Just quoted me £73 for shipping 108x73x21 from London to Melbs in 84 days. A frame and a bunch of other stuff around 15kg. They also do a bike box, delivered to you up to 40kg for 90 quid!

This destroyed the Interparcel quote which was almost double.

40kgs? Awesome. So you could basically fill it with other stuff.
Do you mean they provide the box?

#slowday

Yea, they drop off the box to you. You fill it and then they come back and collect it. The website is pink though, but I decided to go with it. Wish I'd investigated this before I put 3 1/2 years of my life in a bin out the back of ASDA

I packed my own box though.

Bump - any advice on who's currently best to use?

Any Italians/Italophiles able to recommend a courier company to send a bike over with, from Rome?

Friend of mine in Rome sending me a lovely late 80s Liberati frame with almost all Nuovo Record, including hubs with Nisi rims, some bits of which I intend to sell on (here on LFGSS, with donation of course) on his behalf, though the frame's for me ;-).

At the moment he's getting some silly quotes.
Any ideas?

Cheers, GA

does anyone know how much to post a wheelset to germany?

bump

Google for
Transglobal express dot org
Or
Parcel2go

Will prob cost you around £20-30 . Make the box as small as possible. Price is based on volume not weight only.

thanks for that

RIght... NEVER USE INTERPARCEL!

They are totally shite.

Twice now they have taken my money and then not picked up an item in the UK, which they say due to a technical error.

Also, just sent something to Greece- taken 15 days on 3-4day service and no refund as they say its a customs issue. Apparently they needed a Greek phone number on the delivery information- which Interparcel failed to mention and only brought it up after i phoned 4 times!!!

Crap service, crap customer services- dont go near them

can anyone tell me the best and cheapest company for sending a frame to the USA? Is using Parcelforce a good idea?

Parcelforce will do it, but it'll be expensive.

Try one of the aggregating companies like www.parcel2go.com or www.interparcel.com, they'll usually give you the best price.

There is a thread about this already somewhere.

See. :-)

There's this one too;

http://www.lfgss.com/thread28793.html

I need some advice, I am selling a frame and wish to post to the UK or oversea's. What's the best courier company to use ?

any recommendations ?

I am planning to visit my LBS to get an old box to put it in and then max out on bubble wrap and possibly knock up a wooden frame / splint to protect it.

Thanks All

I need some advice, I am selling a frame and wish to post to the UK or oversea's. What's the best courier company to use ?

any recommendations ?

I am planning to visit my LBS to get an old box to put it in and then max out on bubble wrap and possibly knock up a wooden frame / splint to protect it.

Thanks All

If you're going to your lbs, get some of the plastic spacers that new frames have between the dropouts / track ends and use them too.

Pipe lagging also helps around the tubes and then fill the rest with bubble wrap.

As for a courier, I've only ever used parcel farce in the uk and UPS from abroad but both have (for bikes) been fine.

Sad but I have some lagging in the garage from a weekend of sorting out the central heating pipes...good idea.

Ta

Do a search, there are loads of threads on this topic.

Any on idea on the keywords ?

UTFS was the first thing I did, I looked up

Posting Frames
Frame Posting
Posting Bikes
Bike Posting

and nothing in this section of the forum came back.