Path: news.ccsf.jp!tomockey.ddo.jp!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Medgya Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Moving from Japan to the U.S. Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.125.232.73 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1215324440 30839 127.0.0.1 (6 Jul 2008 06:07:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 06:07:20 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.125.232.73; posting-account=Dc63sQoAAADxsPFCa-WOzJj1jv2cuN9Q User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080416 Fedora/2.0.0.14-1.fc8 Firefox/2.0.0.14,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: news.ccsf.jp fj.life.in-japan:167276 On Jul 5, 11:35 am, John wrote: > My wife and I are moving from Japan to the U.S. in August. We probably > have about 3-4 cubic meters of stuff to ship. Any suggestions on good > shipping companies that won't bust the budget? I've always liked EMS or Yamato, but I've never tried to ship anything so large. If you use a shipping company, make sure you're clear about whether the price includes delivery to your door. Sometimes they only take things as far as a warehouse, and then call you to come and get the stuff. Not fun if the place is far away and you don't have a truck. Or it does go to a warehouse, make sure you know where that will be, and if there will be any warehousing costs. Depending on the rates you might divide things into stuff you will need in the short term and stuff that can wait for a few months, then use surface or whatever for the stuff that can wait. If you find a good deal, please post a note, eh? The longer we stay here, the more stuff seems to accumulate. At some point arson may be the only way out!