Best way to ship computers from overseas

Am 18 Oct 2005 8:41 meinte Chandra Bajpai: ;) Well, FedEX (and DHL or UPS) are don't care shipers ... you shoule never care about the price :) If it would be about a larger shipment, I'd say go for one of the real ship (ed. the things that float on water) companies. I had quite good experience with TTC (totaltrans.com). THey spend quite some time to help a total beginner like me to get my stuff arround the globe at quite good rates. I also tried to get quotes incompetent and unresponsive I ever talked to). Regarding the small amount of Computergear you have, what about a trip to Boston with your Whife and maybe a friend? 70 pund free each (maybe more if you're some kind of elite card holder) If you're lucky, you get a flight for arround 400 Euro per person ... still way below whe UPS & Co charge. And a few days off... Declartation is everything. The shipment company will require detailed papers. It also helps quite a lot if you're present at the deciveing customs office. Usualy, when I get stuff Munich, and handle customs myself. This is the perfect spot to use you Geek-Powers: talk to the customs officer, explain what it is, give him dreamy comments about all the technical details. The result is a win-winn situation, you have fun telling, and they somehow speed up the process quite much. The last 6 palletes of stuff I got from california, I had a tax payment of less than 20 USD :) Now, if you take the stuff in your baggage, the checks in the US are rather nominal. Even before TSA, did the US pay the larges boarderservice I know with the least intense checks I know. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 7.0 am 29/30.April und 01.Mai 2006 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/