Best way to ship extra stuff to semester abroad?

thumper1
Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:28:31 +0000

Best way to ship stuff to semester abroad??

Don’t. There are stores in the UK. When DS was in the UK for a semester, his college advised against shipping ANYTHING to the students. He packed whatever he needed. One thing we did was keep in touch with other families who visited throughout the semester. Most were willing to take an item or two for our kid if we had needed that. We didn’t. He did buy a couple of odds and ends…that cost WAY less than shipping back and forth from here.

Another thing we did was send some items on a “one way trip”. We told DS to leave the linens in England, as well as any underwear. We purposely sent over the oldest of that stuff so it could be left behind on the return trip.