Power Kite Forum - Shipping to Japan

jaymzmn

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posted on 22-9-2009 at 11:58 AM

Shipping to Japan

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anyone know of a cheap way to send something as big as a 157 to Japan?

USPS will not ship that big and UPS/fedex charge 300+ bucks.

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posted on 22-9-2009 at 12:26 PM

You aren't going to do well on this. I just shipped my Synergy to Furbowski in Hong Kong and USPS was half Fedex and UPS. DHL or another carrier might work out better. Something big like that is going to cost ya.

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posted on 22-9-2009 at 12:29 PM

A snowboard lists as shipping via Sports Express from US to Japan at $198. Still an acid burn, but down 33%.... sort of the difference between being thrashed with a pine 2x4, rather than oak. Will keep looking.

Quite honestly the cheapest way I can think of is (possibly) sneaking by as someone's baggage allowance, but that would require a whole lot of astral alignment.

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posted on 22-9-2009 at 05:00 PM

Thanks for trying Jaymzmn I appreciate it ...

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posted on 22-9-2009 at 08:17 PM

no worries mate. I tried! I even thought of asking my wife military connections in Japan as there is super cheap postage with the military....

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posted on 22-9-2009 at 08:59 PM

Hmm... what was the price of shipping to APO/FPO? I got several buddies in the military here...

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posted on 23-9-2009 at 07:19 AM

I have no idea what the price is but I'll ask this week. Her mum used to send huge boxes to tokyo all the time when she lived out there so it is do-able.