Best way to ship extra stuff to semester abroad?

somemom
Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:41:56 +0000

My DD is in the UK (for a couple of years) and the cost of a 3rd suitcase was the same as shipping USPS, so she did that for ease of transfers & customs. Many girls are having packages show up subject to duty because they are not labeled properly- used personal clothing seems to work fine.

My DD found it cheaper to actually order some cheap fill in the blanks clearance shirts from Wet Seal (yes, she found 6 that were actually not Hoochie Mama) and I mailed them in a box with some missed food items as a treat. Use USPS flat rate boxes, but they are still expensive, it is lucky customs has not opened any of mine, as they would never get all the stuff back in the way I did!