Shipping Your Stuff Overseas

Since the USPS no longer ships things overseas via surface mail, it's difficult to find a cheap way to move your belongings overseas.

I looked into using an international moving company but they all wanted to charge us at least $1200 to send our stuff to the UK. We aren't shipping any furniture. We just have some clothes, books and my husband's recording equipment.

I decided to go the freight forwarding route after reading about it on some other sites. I looked into a few companies. Safeco Exports seemed like a good company to me. They were helpful and easy to reach. The actual cost for shipping our goods was reasonable but the addition cost to send our good to the port was too much. If you live in a port city and can drop your stuff off to be shipped yourself, I'd recommend them.

We ended up using IQ Global Logistics because their cost for transporting our goods to the port was less. We didn't have them pick it up at our house. We took our things to a warehouse to be shipped.

In order to use these companies the things you ship must be boxed. That might rule out taking furniture.

The shipping process should take about thirty days. We'll have to pick them up from a warehouse. We haven't gotten our stuff yet. I'll let you know how that works out. We'll see how banged up things get.