[R-390] Shipping Receivers Across the Pond

[Ben]

You should just buy a plane ticket and check it as a bag, at least you get a trip out of it

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On Jan 30, 2013, at 22:47, "Todd, KA1KAQ" <ka1kaq at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to tap into the vast experience of some of the members here who
> have shipped R-390As and other sets to our cousins across the Atlantic.
> It's been many years since I shipped anything bigger than tubes, and the
> choices have changed considerably.
> 
> At this point I am halfway through a trade with a listmember here. Last
> year he shipped me a beautiful Murphy B40D receiver with accessories, in a
> nice fiberglass container approximately 34" square with small casters. I
> have here for him the R-390's predecessor, a very nice R-388 receiver,
> matching speaker and a few other bits like connectors. The desire is to use
> the same container to ship it all back. How to pack it is not the issue.
> How to ship it is. I keep hitting dead ends which means I'm not doing
> something right.
> 
> It appears that I can send the receiver double boxed for somewhere in the
> $200-$300 range, but adding in the container really skews things due to the
> overall size plus weight formula. Fully packed the container will only be
> somewhere around 75-80 lbs I'd guess. Certainly not more than 100 and
> likely much less.
> 
> Since everything goes by air freight now, FedWrex wants somewhere are $1200
> last time I checked and UPS isn't much better. It seems like this mini
> container should go for under $500.
> 
> I've got a major airport nearby with several carriers and a Customs office.
> Being an individual and not a business makes it far more than just a maze -
> it makes it downright difficult to figure out.
> 
> Anyone here have recent experience with overseas air freight?  Since the
> baby arrived in November I've been 'distracted' a bit for lack of a better
> word but I'd like to get Pete's radio to him before it turns to dust. And I
> know he'd love to have it!
> 
> TNX  -
> 
> de Todd/'Boomer'  KA1KAQ/4
> 
> BTW, this is a deal a long time in the making. We originally started back
> in the 90s after a discussion on this list about the B40 and SP-600
> receivers. But that's another story....
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