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LITTLE PEACHES · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:35 am Post subject: freight to California

I have seached these forums for information to ship stuff home by freight and have found places to ship to everywhere but the US. Does anyone have any places that ships to the US cheap? If not I feel like I should start selling things for my June departure.

Mr_Monkey · Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 661 Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu

Try Kuroneko Yamato.

seklarwia · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:51 pm Post subject:

You can also try www.jluggage.com

They don't tell you the by sea prices online unless you fill in a quote request but in the flyer it says that 1 cubic metre weighing upto a ton will cost you 60,000 to San Diego with each additional .1 cubic metre costing 4,200.

LITTLE PEACHES · Posted: Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:48 am Post subject:

WOW...thats a lot....maybe i should just buy suitcases and take them on the plane with me...each extra bag is like 5000 yen and i don't have that many...i just heard there was a cheap way to ship..i just havent found it yet

kahilm · Joined: 12 Apr 2007 Posts: 43

If you've only got a few boxes, see how much your local post office would charge you. When I returned to the U.S. last year, I sent two boxes full of winter/snowboarding stuff home before I got on the plane. I think it cost me around $200. Much easier than trying to lug it all to the airport and I'm not even sure the airlines would allow that much excess baggage even with the extra fees.

Apsara · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 2142 Location: Tokyo, Japan

japantimes · Joined: 19 May 2010 Posts: 5

Not sure about the US but to Australia I found the Post Office had the best rates. They sell the boxes (not the ones you see on the walls, the larger ones for the purpose of freight are all behind the counter) and have free pick up service from your address. They were much better than any other service we looked at.

LadyK · Joined: 25 May 2009 Posts: 55 Location: USA, FL

I've heard on this forum that you can't ship boxes by boat TO Japan anymore, but you can ship things from. Does anyone know the law/reason behind this, and if it's true? I just spent around $200 USD getting one 35lb box to Japan, and that was the cheapest I could find. I used Nippon Express.