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[Dev]

How expensive is it to send things to North America by sea mail?
Anyone know the rates?

Thanks.

[pkang0202]

I'm not sure about the rates. All I know is that it takes freaking forever. My family shipped me my spring/summer clothes back in March by boat. I'm still waiting for them to get here.

I thought by boat was just going to be 1 month. Its almost 2 months now and I'm still sweating my ass off.

[ttompatz]

[khyber]

cheeaaaaap.
but it requires patient.
I wish I knew how big the box was.

Anyone have any idea of whether or not a guitar could be shipped via mail?

[fibergirl]

I do believe that the USA has changed it policy recently and will no longer accept sea mail anymore. I was told this by a girl that is leaving Korea in a month but have not checked at the post office. Just a heads up for you.

[valkyrian2]

[OiGirl]

[dogshed]

[Scotticus]

In July, I sent a 50 pound box of clothes to America via sea for about 35k won. REAL cheap. Only downside was that everything reeked of mothballs (or something that smelled like mothballs).

[kat2]

YOu can check a guitar. Of course it cuts your baggage allowance down to one suitcase if you do, but i don't know of any other way toget it home. We wrapped ours in bubble wrap and checked it 3 times with no problems

[Peeping Tom]

DO NOT send anything of value.

When I left Korea, I send home 10 boxes by ship via the Korean post office. Many of them were quite battered when they arrived. Three of them had broken open in transit. Of the three, the contents of one had arrived in a completely different box. One of them was my DVDs and CDs, and it was missing half its contents (surprising, because that box should have been least likely to break). In addition to not receiving everything I sent, I received a few items that other Koreans had sent (e.g. Korean comic books).

The four boxes I shipped out of the U.S. military base arrived without any problem.

The two boxes I shipped home from Hawaii arrived without any problem.

Don't send anything home by boat through the Korean post office unless you can live without it. You'll probably get it...but there's a fair chance you won't, too. If you do choose to do so, don't be content with just placing packing tape around each edge and a couple around the middle; instead, make sure every centimeter is covered in tape. I also thought I had taped up my boxes pretty securely...

[kat2]

This is good advice to tape every inch. In Argentina they would shrink wrap your boxes in heavy plastic if you paid an extra fee (which was worth it with all the theft down there!). Not sure where you could get that done here.
My dad tapes every inch of every box he sends me and Korean customs never opens it that way. Its a great way to sneak stuff through.

[Dev]

BUMP!

I think this thread belongs in the FAQs section. It's useful. I just spent a lot of time trying to find this thread.