10 Jun
2007
10 Jun
'07
3:31 a.m.
Hi
I am curently investigating shipping costs between the UK and US.
As collectors we don't need next day delivery but we do need full cover
insurance.
Don't go away. The cost is not that bad.
Rod
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"Rod Smallwood" <RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk> writes:
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LA75 x1 x1 (-) =20
HP 700 Terminal
HP 2392A Terminal x1
Too bad you're on the wrong side of the pond...
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11 Jun
11 Jun
2:05 p.m.
Rod Smallwood wrote:
Hi
I am curently investigating shipping costs between the UK and US.
As collectors we don't need next day delivery but we do need full cover
insurance.
Don't go away. The cost is not that bad.
Rod
I'm looking at LCL oceanic shipping, its Less than Container Load,
basically a rectangular box that fits about 20 to a container, has 1
cubic meter of volume and the first 1000 kilos is part of the base
shipping cost of about $150.
As usual lots of quicksand around the treasure, port fees, brokerage,
customs, and its a port to port service, not terminal to terminal or
door to door without adding a local ground shipper to the mix. Also its
targeted to business, not private goods, so some places don't seem to
want to even talk to a one time shipper. Complete and accurate paperwork
seems essential.
It does tend to be SLOW, as in couple weeks transit, with a month or
more of sitting on a dock at either end.
2:25 p.m.
On 6/11/07, Mike Ford <mikeford at socal.rr.com> wrote:
I'm looking at LCL oceanic shipping, its Less than
Container Load,
Interesting service... if I had an acceptable port nearby (Toledo?
Cleveland?), I'd consider that for shipping things to/from
Christchurch/Lyttleton New Zealand, or perhaps from Mongolia (but the
Asian end might prove to be complicated to arrange).
It does tend to be SLOW, as in couple weeks transit,
with a month or
more of sitting on a dock at either end.
Not as slow as waiting for end-of-the-season parcel mail to get from
the South Pole to the States. If I mail myself a 20lb package on,
say, 1 Feb, I won't see it at home for a couple of months (it has to
wait for the once-a-year cargo vessel to get to McMurdo, departing
around 14 Feb, then back to California, where it is unloaded, the mail
sent on to SFO, then across the U.S). The wait is even longer if you
miss the postal deadline - try off-continent around Halloween, to
arrive around Thanksgiving.
LCL sounds dandy compared to some of the options I've dealt with. If
anyone does get far enough along in the process to evaluate it, I'd
like to learn more.
-ethan
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