# \[URGENT\] Calling all Brits... or anyone that knows heaps about freight/shipping **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [March 24, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174 "2006-03-24T11:37:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/1 "2006-03-24T11:37:55Z")
I’ve got a bit of a dillemma on my hands here. I’m thinking to buy a hard-disk array from someone in London, but the thing’s 35kg!!! I’m in Australia, and I need a cheap way to get it from there to here. Cheap, as in, cheaper than 300 pounds (which is the shipping quote the seller’s obtained). This is kinda urgent… Help? ---
**Author:** ![Butters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Butters](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Butters)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/2 "2006-03-24T12:17:52Z")
Hmmm, you can’t send it through regular Royal Mail, it’s too heavy. You’re gonna have to go with a courier like FexEx, UPS, DHL etc… They can be quite expensive tho, you can probably find a less mainstream one, probably cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![Insomniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@Insomniac](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Insomniac)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 12:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/3 "2006-03-24T12:34:35Z")
You’d need to tell us the postcode it’s coming from in the UK, the place it’s going in Australia, the cost of the hard-disk array, and the size of the package to be able to get a quote. Fill us in 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Seb\_Hughes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Seb\_Hughes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Seb_Hughes)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/4 "2006-03-24T15:59:17Z")
Wow thats expensive, we ordered furniture from china once, and i dont think it cost that much, and th efuriture was quite heavy ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/5 "2006-03-24T22:52:19Z")
> [@Insomniac](#): > > You’d need to tell us the postcode it’s coming from in the UK, the place it’s going in Australia, the cost of the hard-disk array, and the size of the package to be able to get a quote. Fill us in 😉 From London to Perth, Western Australia. 35kg. £150 for the array. And it’s about this big: ![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/418/a1f72784c89dae3b.JPG) This thing’s a precious commodity - _really_ hard to find, so I’d hate to let it fly past, especially for £150. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/6 "2006-03-25T00:41:21Z")
We already know it’s coming from London to Perth, we **need** to know the postcodes. 35kg is even past the maximum weight sending from Australia to London (max is 20kg). This calls for UPS Priority Service… ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/7 "2006-03-25T01:21:57Z")
Ugh… sorry. Not sure of the London postcode. I’ll contact the seller. The destination postcode is 6026. _sigh_ I’d seriously only want to spend about AU$200 on shipping. Anything more would be a bit unfortunate. ---
**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/8 "2006-03-25T07:13:44Z")
I’ll have to be honest with you ya3, it looks like a bit more. I went on Austpost’s website and I checked the cost for up to 35KG. It was like $240. Get back to that guy and ask for the postcodes because I was able to check on UPS for you when I didn’t know about that. ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 7:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/9 "2006-03-25T07:55:09Z")
AU$240? That could work… Still waiting on the seller to give me a postcode. It’s very early morning in London right now, so he should reply later tonight. I think I’ve checked the UPS site. I just put in any random London postcode and it gave me a price over 300 GBP. I mean, for 300 GBP (almost AU$800), I may as well fly over there myself, say hi to the Queen, sling the disk array under my arm and head back home 😛 btw, minimalistik: do you work in postage or something? ---
**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/10 "2006-03-25T11:42:32Z")
Lol, no I don’t but I recently got a SLR film camera from Ebay and I do an annual hosting postage to my hosting company so I’ve used AustPost’s website quite a bit to check costs. ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/11 "2006-03-25T13:07:28Z")
Ah, but… my package wouldn’t be via AusPost. It needs to be a courier based in the UK, right? ---
**Author:** ![hl1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hl1/32/849_2.png) [@hl1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hl1)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/12 "2006-03-25T18:12:15Z")
You could always hire a guy with a Pilatus PC-12 that wants to visit Australia to carry the disk array with him 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/13 "2006-03-25T23:12:18Z")
Lol. You wouldn’t happen to have a Pilatus PC-12, would you? ---
**Author:** ![hl1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/hl1/32/849_2.png) [@hl1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hl1)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/14 "2006-03-25T23:52:33Z")
> [@ya3](#): > > Lol. You wouldn’t happen to have a Pilatus PC-12, would you? Give me 4 million dollars and I will! ---
**Author:** ![minimalistik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@minimalistik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/minimalistik)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 5:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/15 "2006-03-26T05:30:35Z")
> Ah, but… my package wouldn’t be via AusPost. It needs to be a courier based in the UK, right? well, yeah. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-calling-all-brits-or-anyone-that-knows-heaps-about-freight-shipping/183174/16 "2006-03-26T10:35:54Z")
Bleh. Someone else snapped up the array today… oh well. I found a couple of others, but one’s in Egypt and costs over AU$2000 to ship, and the other guy’s asking for 1000 pounds for the unit itself. I guess I’ll just have to find an alternative to Discreet storage, or wait for one to crop up in Australia. As I said, bleh. Thanks for the help, guys 😉