Shipping from US to UK - any recommendations?

Anyone know the best / cheapest form of shipping from the USA to the UK?

I wondered if anyone used any particular company for large weight shipments?

I recently saw this website and thought that it was a great idea so bookmarked it. Then you asked this questions and I thought you might be interested. Coincidence or what?!

http://www.bundlebox.com/

What kind of stuff are you shipping? Size/Weight? Any special shipping requirements etc etc.

They're glass bottles of drinks and while they're not overly large (size of a normal case of 24 drinks), they're just quite heavy at 14 kilos a case.

I think I'm going to send them via sea as every other option makes them far too expensive to ship.

Are there any restrictions when importing foodstuffs from outside the EU?

http://www.food.gov.uk/foodindustry/imports/

Thanks for that, Chris. Isn't in interesting what you CAN'T import?

I've done this a fair few times now and I'm definitely not importing anything restricted or evil

Well, it might be evil...

Thanks for that, Chris. Isn't in interesting what you CAN'T import?

 

I've done this a fair few times now and I'm definitely not importing anything restricted or evil

 

Well, it might be evil...

I know, I was all set for importing avian flu samples and spores, and now I find I can't. It's so unfair!

I know, I was all set for importing avian flu samples and spores, and now I find I can't. It's so unfair!

ROFL! I've decided to ship the heavy stuff by sea. There's a cool website where companies can bid on your shipment. That's actually pretty cool.

https://www.uship.com/

lol that would be the pirate ship, that would!

I know, I was all set for importing avian flu samples and spores, and now I find I can't. It's so unfair!

Spores are no problem.

Spores are no problem.

You'd reckon, but apparently not so much as hand luggage....

Hi Karis, you have chosen the cheaper option there by sea.

If you have the Commodity code of the items as well you will be able to check roughly what sort of amounts of VAT/Duty will be applicable in the UK also (if any)

This is usually helpfull as at times i have come accross people who did not take into account the customs side of things in their budgeting.