Best Cross-Atlantic Shipping?

[ShortcutToMoncton]

I was looking into shipping a board from Canada to England. It's a 180cm race board, so I roughly estimated package size at 190cm x 30cm x 14cm.

The cheapest quote that UPS, Fedex and Canada Post web sites have spit back to me is about $300. That's... almost 10 times the cost it takes to ship from Canada to US.

Does anyone else have any experience with cross-Atlantic shipping? Is it really this expensive or am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks,

greg

[scrapster]

I shipped a 156cm to Greece a few years back. I got a good price from USPS--but it JUST met their size limit. Any longer and it would have had to go with a private carrier.

As for privates--for that board, FedEx would have cost me $375, UPS was best at $196.

Dupraz gave me a quote for shipping a board from Germany last year--I'm pretty sure it was above $200.

Good luck!

[CarvingScooby]

I was looking into shipping a board from Canada to England. It's a 180cm race board, so I roughly estimated package size at 190cm x 30cm x 14cm.

The cheapest quote that UPS, Fedex and Canada Post web sites have spit back to me is about $300. That's... almost 10 times the cost it takes to ship from Canada to US.

Does anyone else have any experience with cross-Atlantic shipping? Is it really this expensive or am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks,

greg

Via CanPost for some countries won't xcept longer thn 150 cm:mad:.

Cheers

Roy

[scrapster]

I guess you could try a company like: http://www.uship.com/

They list international shippers among their service providers.

[tdifan_2003]

How about finding a "friend" who travels acros the ocean and pay his oversize airplaine charge, which will be by any means cheaper than the shipping charges.

Another idea is again a friend overseas who is in the army. They ncan ship stuff with great discounts.

Just my 2 cents - one per idea

[Chris Houghton]

DHL worked well for me a couple of years back - everyone else was far more expensive.