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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Freight for large heavy items. Do you have a pickup truck or trailer to get them?
Have them shipped from CA via ground freight. Ask that they strap the wardrobe box to a pallet for forklift use. Ask for dock pickup and when the freight company calls, go pick them up at the freight company. A lot of the cost is getting them from loading docks onto a truck that can get around in a neighborhood. And the lift gate and the delivery driver.
I have gone to the freight lines terminal and pulled in next to 18 wheelers and had the forklift drop the box in the pickup.
It is still expensive. The other choice for door to door delivery is FedEx freight.
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I don't have a pickup (or access to one), but I do have two cars that will easily fit the box. The Saab has so much room and such a big liftgate that it might as well be a pickup truck, and you can probably even load it with a lift truck.
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Originally Posted by jrj3rd
Used to ship items like that via Greyhound. Would check out their rates.
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Thanks, I'd forgotten about that - I'll check it out.
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Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6
Shipping seats is cheap and easy.
When I ship Carrera seats I get one full size garment box from UHaul and the shorty. Sleeving those with seats headrest to base creates a strong and clean box.
Then use bikeflights.com It's for shipping bikes but I've shipped with them about 50 times now, all large car parts, and because they have a volume deal with UPS, their rate is about half what UPS is. There are other shipping sites like bikeflights, I found them having to ship a bike.
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yes, the seller is packaging them in just such a box. I've used bikeflights before (sending and receiving) for, well, bikes; but I believe they have an explicit policy against shipping non-bike stuff. Edit: commenter said same.