[CR] Shipping Uk to the States

(Example: Production Builders:Pogliaghi)

Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:49:40 +0000
From: "Norris Lockley" <nlockley73@googlemail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Shipping Uk to the States


It was light years since i had shipped any frames to the States, possibly some 25 years, so when, about two years ago I undertook to ship a whole bike across, I was very unprepared for the difficulties that I would find.

Reading the CR List day in day out I had assumed that it would be a piece of cake, proverbially speaking, even if it might be expensive.

It took me until the last week in July..almost two years to get a decent deal..and then there it was..and not too expensive. All the other carriers I had tried needed me to work within very tight multiples of lelgth x girth x height..then there were the weight considerations. Others who were neither weight nor domension conscious needed an awful lot of money to shift the parcel.

The one day I stumbled upon a firm called Parcel2Go..and it is based not one hour from my home. The company appears to have done some deal with Ebay, having cottoned on to the fact that an awful lot of people are sending stuff around the world..and that there is a yawning gap in the provision for shipping it.

I shipped a whole bike, albeit a 50cms framed one, from Settle to Sacramento. The basic cost for an non-express, ie 5-to-7 day delivery, was £71 to which I added quite good insurance cover for another £20 making a grand total of £91.

The shipper, who uses Fed-EX for the long haul part of the delivery, picked up the large box at 12.30pm on the Friday and I understand that the local Stateside Depot telephoned the would-be recipient in Sacramento, a CR LIst member, at sometime late morning on the followng Monday.

As I recall the website address is :- www,parcel2go.co.uk

Hope that helps you out.

Norris Lockley

Settle UK