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Shipping Recs From Japan...

Funky_MimizuFunky_Mimizu 631 Posts
edited November 2005 in Strut Central


Ok, taken a few months ago, expanded by at least a crate...

How much is this gonna run me? Can I get book rate? Shipper recommendations?

Help a brother out, I'm 6 months away from moving back to the states, and worried I gotta start saving now. But maybe I'm just paranoid...One friend, non DJ, estimated $300 (which is not bad)?

Peace...
FNM

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  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    hook up with an air freight company - sending it via regular post wouldn't make sense.

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  • Funky_MimizuFunky_Mimizu 631 Posts
    What about sea? Is that safe? I've heard it can be rough, and get a bit wet...

    Peace...
    FNM
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    What about sea? Is that safe? I've heard it can be rough, and get a bit wet...

    Peace...
    FNM

    Surface shipping is uber sketchy.
  • hammertimehammertime 2,389 Posts
    I would avoid surface at all costs...I've definitely gotten waterlogged records before.
  • SoulhawkSoulhawk 3,197 Posts
    Passing through an airport once( Gatwick I think), I saw a huge heavy wooden crate being dropped by a crane into a bulk cargo bay filled with smaller cardboard packages. I naerly cried.

    "oh the humanity!" etc.
  • Funky_MimizuFunky_Mimizu 631 Posts
    I would avoid surface at all costs...I've definitely gotten waterlogged records before.

    That's what I've heard... But anyone got a ballpark estimate on shipping by air? We talking a few hundred? A thousand?

    Peace...
    FNM
  • hcrinkhcrink 8,729 Posts
    Air would be expensive. a freight company might be cheaper, but get a reliable one. My buddy who moved from the states back to Japan got a cheapie freight co. & they "lost" half his shit, including all his records.

  • NachoManCandySandwichNachoManCandySandwich 409 Posts
    Much cheaper to send them to Setagaya-Ku, dude! I pay top yen.

    A few years back I shipped home two boxes. Must have been surface because they took a month. No damage or wetness, but that shit cost me about 40 a box, if I recall. Wrap them in a garbage bag (inside the box) if you send surface.

  • djsheepdjsheep 3,620 Posts
    I ship by courier, cuz records get warped by sea mail. It usually ends up being about $3 a record landed after tax...

    $300 is way under estimate. I would say closer to $1000

    peace.
  • Funky_MimizuFunky_Mimizu 631 Posts
    I ship by courier, cuz records get warped by sea mail. It usually ends up being about $3 a record landed after tax...

    $300 is way under estimate. I would say closer to $1000

    peace.



    Aw well... so it goes.

    Thanks for the estimate... I gotta start saving.

    Recommendation on a good reliable courier from Japan?

    Peace...
    FNM

    P.S. You got an extra copy of that Kei-Bin Testsu-Dou Bushi 45? I still can't find that shit.


  • slushslush 691 Posts
    i shipped maybe 3/4 that home via japan post by sea. i bought their cardboard boxes for it and packed them to the weight limit. there were 6 boxes, each was about 8100 yen. they all came 6 weeks later, perfect shape.
  • NachoManCandySandwichNachoManCandySandwich 409 Posts
    Yeah, that sounds like what my situation was too.
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