Anyone know anything about sending big and heavy items overseas?

[Niddlynono]

Hi,
DH is selling an amplifier on Ebay and he might need to ship it the US and I don't really know where to start looking. Would UPS or Fedex be any good for big/heavy things?

TIA

The express carriers (UPS, Fedex etc) have dimensional weighting requirements (even the postoffice have these days) so you need to not only consider the weight, but the length, width and height of the final package too.....if you do lxwxh in cm and divide by 6000, this will get you the dimensional weight, if its inces divide by 194.......if the dimensional weight is greater you need to use that, or the company will bill you retrospectivly.....yikes.......UPS ship upto 70K nothing over. This is usually the same for the rest of the express carriers. HTH's

If its larger you need a freight forwarder, ie Atlas Air, MSAS etc

Thanks for that Frizbe. That's very helpful.

I'm getting ready to ship some things to America, and have had this company recommended to me:

www.sevenseasworldwide.com/?gclid=CLyhksav3IwCFRmzEAo dkGGBZA

If you ship by sea, it takes a long time, but is definitely much cheaper.