Cheaper way to send Excess Baggages
Mar 10, 2016 | 6:24 am
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Cheaper way to send Excess Baggages
I am planning a trip from Coimbatore (india) to San Francisco (USA) in June. I am moving back to USA and I have a lot of Excess baggage to carry with me. I am not sure how much I could carry with me as excess baggage. My friends suggest that I should use a commercial courier service to send my extra baggages. Would that be cheaper? Anyone have experience with this kind of a situation?
Mar 11, 2016 | 11:29 am
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Approach a moving company to arrange everything. Airfreight or unaccompanied baggage requires quite a bit of paperwork on both ends, especially when you want to clear customs stateside. You will quickly realise the excess baggage fees are peanuts in comparison 
Mar 12, 2016 | 1:39 am
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Unfortunately, they didn't wish to stay there and moved back, so haven't had the opportunity to move back everything so far!
Last edited by SuperFlyBoy; Mar 12, 2016 at 2:35 pm
Mar 12, 2016 | 4:58 am
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I am planning a trip from Coimbatore (india) to San Francisco (USA) in June. I am moving back to USA and I have a lot of Excess baggage to carry with me. I am not sure how much I could carry with me as excess baggage. My friends suggest that I should use a commercial courier service to send my extra baggages. Would that be cheaper? Anyone have experience with this kind of a situation?