Shipping questions

[Wes Krygsman]

Hello Tubenet!

Anyone have any experience shipping tubas or sousaphones from USA to Australia? How about any other international shipping? Any tips? Recommendations? All sousaphones are in old, rickety, but sturdy wooden cases.

My reason for asking is that I have been in contact with a few possible buyers of my sousaphones from Australia and was wondering the best possible route making this sale happen.

I will be checking out shipping prices Fedex, DHL, and UPS early this week. Any other companies I should check out?

I was also thinking of sending all 2-3 sousaphones on a pallet to one location in Australia, and having them distributed from there. Is this even possible?

I have seen the posts here about wrapping a tuba up for safe shipping, but I am unsure exactly how to bubble wrap a sousaphone to make it stay safe while still fitting in the case. Smaller bubbles?

Thanks in advance for all your expertise.

[Ken Herrick]

I have used Consolidators International Inc. for shipping tubas from USA to Australia on 2 occasions and found their service to be completely satisfactory and economical. They arrange virtually everything from pick up to delivery. The shippers hardly had to do anything beyond providing an invoice as far as documentation is concerned making it a pretty hassle free experience for the seller. On the receiving end they can have a local agent handle everything from customs clearance to delivery.

Contact me direct if you want more info.