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LJ Genie: Freight
Mar. 16th, 2010 12:36 amDear LJ Genie,
I need to have two boxes, one 19 pounds and the other 23 pounds, shipped from Portland to Belgium. Each box is 24" x 24" x 24". Apparently the sizes of the boxes put them into some horrible no-man's-land whereby costs are computed by "volume weight" rather than actual weight -- apparently I could ship 83 pounds worth of stuff for the same price. For the prices that I am being quoted, I could buy one of you Portlanders a ticket to Belgium and have the Portlander in question bring the boxes in lieu of checked luggage. While this idea amuses me enormously, I do not currently have a spare $700 to do this with -- or to ship boxes, natuerlich.
The boxes can arrive pretty much anytime prior to the heat death of the universe (well, okay, sometime this year would be nice), and they'll be full of (well-packed) glass and thus can't be banged around too horribly, but other than that, my main concern is getting them here on the cheap.
Ideas?
I need to have two boxes, one 19 pounds and the other 23 pounds, shipped from Portland to Belgium. Each box is 24" x 24" x 24". Apparently the sizes of the boxes put them into some horrible no-man's-land whereby costs are computed by "volume weight" rather than actual weight -- apparently I could ship 83 pounds worth of stuff for the same price. For the prices that I am being quoted, I could buy one of you Portlanders a ticket to Belgium and have the Portlander in question bring the boxes in lieu of checked luggage. While this idea amuses me enormously, I do not currently have a spare $700 to do this with -- or to ship boxes, natuerlich.
The boxes can arrive pretty much anytime prior to the heat death of the universe (well, okay, sometime this year would be nice), and they'll be full of (well-packed) glass and thus can't be banged around too horribly, but other than that, my main concern is getting them here on the cheap.
Ideas?