Shipping personal goods

[Legion]

Hi all,

I'm currently waiting for my certificate of eligibility and in the meantime i'll stay in Philippines.
I need to send my excess clothes and personal effects (not much) to Japan, either to the company I am working at in Osaka or in storage.

Does anyone know a good company to send these items for cheap and also safely (as in not get wet!)

Also how much hassle am I going to get from customs.
I basically don't want to send my items to Philippines and then from Philippines send on to Japan..

thanks in advance!

[GaijinPunch]

Where are you sending from and how much is it? And no, I wouldn't send to the Phillipines either. USPS is probably the cheapest bet. Mark the value down, but you still may have to pay a duty. The way I understand it is certain fabrics are one things they actually tax you on.

I would ship to your company if they'll take it.

[Legion]

I am sending from the UK (London) and other than a NAS box, UK xbox 360 and a few xbox 360 games/ps2 pads (with converter for 360) its just clothing.
Clothing is general shirts, trousers, a few coats.

Fed ex do it for around £382 but I'm not sure what duties I'd have to pay on that

[Giel]

Isn't there a special ''I'm moving to this country'' type of law that lessens the amount of tax you have to pay? I'd look into it.

[Tatsujin]

I think, I didn't pay any taxes when I moved my dump from swiss to here. And I had about 1000 games in the bunch. I had declarated is as personel owning goods.

But I'm not 100% sure about it anymore, may have to check the transfere bills again. But even if I had to pay something, it was like peanuts.

[GaijinPunch]

Isn't there a special ''I'm moving to this country'' type of law that lessens the amount of tax you have to pay? I'd look into it.

Probably but I have no clue what it is or how to invoke it. I'd rather just save the time and declare everything as almost worthless.

I think, I didn't pay any taxes when I moved my dump from swiss to here. And I had about 1000 games in the bunch. I had declarated is as personel owning goods.

Did you post them to yourself in a box or have them delivered freight in a container? Big difference.

[Tatsujin]

Yeah container. Altough my shack took only like 5m3 in size.
I could ship it with a forwarder from my previous company.

[Legion]

http://www.nipponexpress.co.uk/air_freight_2.html

I think I'll go with these guys for the Japan items.
I reckon my clothing and misc will reach into about 80kilos
Some of the art books and my heavy NAS box will cause most of the weight.
That calculates to £195 or thereabouts.