Postage and packing Thailand to UK

[CharleyNick 0]

Hi all,

 

Fairly new to Thailand,, loving it of course.

 

Does anyone have any idea about the cheapest method, company or otherwise which I can use to send around 70 Kg of clothing back to UK

 

 

Help help help the research that I have done puts prices around a couple of grand sterling what!!!!!!!!

[jacko 8,866]

A BIz Class flight would cost about £2,000, give you a 50KG baggage allowance, and you could wear 20kg worth.

Don't forget to pay your VAT.

 

Try one of the shipping companies, someone I know recently shipped 1/2 a truck load of stuff overseas and the price was in the hundreds, not thousands.

Edited May 30, 2014 by jacko

[MM 6,562]

Hi all,

 

Fairly new to Thailand,, loving it of course.

 

Does anyone have any idea about the cheapest method, company or otherwise which I can use to send around 70 Kg of clothing back to UK

 

 

Help help help the research that I have done puts prices around a couple of grand sterling what!!!!!!!!

 

Just checking Thailand International postal rates here , it appears you can send up to 30kg in one package via surface for about 110GBP..(6025 THB).

 

So, for your 70kg,..2 packages at 30kg and one at 10kg would cost 6025*2+2525 = 14,575 baht or about 270GBP.

 

This would need to be verified at the post office...but that's what's on the thai-info internet site.

[Fireman Sam 336]

Be carefully as well if the clothes are copies of various well known brands or football shirts, I know a few people who have lost their entire packages to UK customs and excise. Either posting them or suitcases full of them at the Airports.

Lot of people used to use that stream of income to fund their trips to Thailand, but getting more difficult to do so these days.



Regards

Edited May 31, 2014 by Fireman Sam

[jacko 8,866]

Be carefully as well if the clothes are copies of various well known brands or football shirts, I know a few people who have lost their entire packages to UK customs and excise. Either posting them or suitcases full of them at the Airports.

 

Lot of people used to use that stream of income to fund their trips to Thailand, but getting more difficult to do so theses days.

 

 

 

Regards

Yeah, saw a few programs on TV while in the UK about uncovering fake electric toothbrush heads, razors, rolling baccy etc and such made in China, being mailed into the UK. Was it another Dominic Littlewood episode?

[Butch 3,456]

Customs are wise to moody gear coming back from most of SEA these days. I was watching the idiot box the other day where they found perfectly faked hand rolling tobacco pouches complete with hologram and customs duty paid stickers separate from the tobacco which was probably smuggled in another container.

 

It goes right from the large industrial scale down to the tourist bringing home or posting bent gear in their suitcase. All of it is X rayed if coming via a cargo flight or commercial, There's less chance of it getting discovered in your personal items, but if you're sending a DHL or other kind of freight box to "Joe Bloggs" in the UK from Thailand the chances are, at 70kg's, it's going to get inspected, which by the way carries an inspection fee before it is released to the customer.