Who has the most resonable price for shipping items over seas

[JIPJOBXX]

Selling one of my carberators and just was wondering who has shipped something over seas and who was the most reasonable company.

[dezeldoc]

the post office but it is not cheap anymore.

[wayfarer]

USPS.. I recently shipped an alloy wheel to England and shopped USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, and a couple others. Low price at USPS was $105, the next 'low' price was over $240 ! Not cheat but it was in my customers hands in about 10 days including their customs.

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[moose]

I've shipped a hubcap to England, and headers to Canada, and USPS was the best price on both.

[Uncle-Pekka]

USPS used to be reasonable, but a couple of yrs back they ended the overseas surface parcel mail for private people. I suppose they are still the least expensive for consolidated airfreight parcels,but that's ca. 5x more expensive than the ship freight used to be. Thus no-deal for me for pieces of iron (=heavy items).

There are independent freight forwarders who do sea container shipping for vehicles. These people do take parts of various sizes & weight and ship them along with the cars, trucks & bikes in the containers. I've used a particular company in Lamar, SC run by a finn. He gathers parcels at his warehouse and sends them to a finnish port to his associate there. It takes time, also to arrange and agree with all parties involved, but is the only possible option for parts such as bumpers, wheels, tires or engine (parts).

I suppose there are movers like this to most west EU countries, but the contacts may be easier to find from the destination country. Then again they all do have some sort of a home page in the web.

[JIPJOBXX]

Just got back from the Post Office and they will ship per there packaging to London around 42 dollars. USP Wanted 131 dollars. The post supplies a given size box and if you can fit it in that box than it goes fairly cheap. They also said that encluded $80 dollars worth of insurance. Jon

[Andydodge]

I have been bringing in both model kits for my shop and car parts for me for the past 15 yrs or so, the US Post Office is the cheapest by a long way, also just as quick as any other stated service, the Edgy Finned Head I got took 4 working days from west coast USA to east coast Australia, tracable all the way via the Post Office computer tracking, cost was about $100.00US........I wouldn't use any other service, andyd

[greg g]

I sent a front Motor mount to Fred V8 shop a couple years ago, it went USPS in a pizza box. I believe it was 18 bucks, Downside was it took over a month.

[Niel Hoback]

I send all sorts of stuff to Budapest all the time.

It takes two weeks, but you still can't beat the USPS.

[RobertKB]

I have used Canada Post to send brake drums to Texas, Indiana, and California. I won't buy anything in the US if it is shipped Fedex or UPS. I always tell the seller it has to be sent USPS or I won't buy. UPS and Fedex always charge me a brokerage fee and extra delivery fee upon arrival on top of what was already paid for shipping. You never get this when it comes throught the postal service. Postal service is cheaper too. Lots of people I know bitch about the postal service but I think it is great and have never had a problem.

[dezeldoc]

I stopped shipping out of the states after this last go round with 2 buyers from ebay, both bitched about the cost but I don't set it!! When you buy something for 10 bucks and shipping is 25 bucks it kinda is not worth it unless you can't find it local then belly up and pay.

[RHDSP15C]

I'm FEDUP with Fedex and Ups, USPS rates are less than a third of the cartel

fixed rates.