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I’m hoping someone here can help me (well actually it’s a friend of mine). Last time I was in BKK I got silk curtains made for a 10th of the price I would pay here at home. They are lovely and the price was unreal.
A friend of mine is going to be in BKK next month and wants to get similar curtains made for her whole house. One slight problem… the weight of the curtains alone is going to be around 25 kilos, and her economy baggage allowance is only 20 kilos, which she is going to fill easily with other local buys, clothes and stuff.
I checked the UPS websites for her… and I reckoned for 4500 baht she can ship them that way back home. Easypeasy! Or so I thought…
… she phones UPS today, and finds out that UPS cannot ship “personal goods” from Thailand to Europe. They can ship “personal goods" within the EU, but not to or from LOS.
Does anyone in here know another way to get around this???
i.e. another way to get a box weighing 25 kilos from BKK to Amsterdam??? And what it would cost???
[The airline’s excess baggage charges are wayyyy to high, at +- 24 euro (1100 baht) per kilo]
What about the regular post office, would they allow "personal goods" to be shipped? If so, any ideas of the cost.
(I take it the likes of FedEx will have the same insane “no personal goods” conditions, so it’s pointless calling them)
Any ideas whatsoever will be greatly appreciated... as she is also getting some curtains made for me, lol.
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Posted on: 7:12 am on July 17, 2003
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JackRabbit
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JackRabbit present...
Just wrap it good and pack it properly in sturdy box.
March into a postoffice , fill the paperwork and post it home.
Arrives in 10-21 days.
It will probably end up in customs and Your friend has to pay tax for them.
She can cut the taxes by asking a receipt for a much smaller price than the real one.
That + freight is the basis , where the taxes are calculated.
Warn her that fabric can have a pretty high taxpercent for protecting the local production.
Here , if You bring fabrics in here , the percentage + VAT + basictax doubles the sum. ( It cost a 100 eur in there , You pay 100 eur taxes.)
Or she can play russian roulette with a few tricks:
She gets a bag , where suits are carried and packs 12 kilos of curtains in there , it gets quite flat and cold-bloodedly carries it into the plane. Usually this works.
Rest goes into case.
She looks a person in the group , who has a lightweight bag going into plane's cargo and they BOTH measure the weight of luggage in the same time.Her overweight is compensated by other one's underweight.
This worked like train's WC , when I travelled with group.
JR
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Posted on: 7:40 am on July 17, 2003
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Tsonoqua
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X:
Everything Jackrabbit said, plus this. Some countries, and I don't know which country your friend is from, so I can't properly comment, limit the amount of textiles that are mailed or shipped into the country. She might want to discuss this with customs before she leaves the country. Most developed nations have "know before you go" booklets or websites.
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Posted on: 9:48 am on July 17, 2003
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thanks to you both.
JR -- the suit carrier trick.... don't they weigh the cabin bagage? (like to check it's not more than 7 kilos)
I never knew about the customs and paying tax at this end thing.
Tsonoqua, she's Dutch. I guess a visit to the cusotms website here is a must.
Actually I need to find all this out for myself anyway as next trip I want to some "serious" shopping and that just ain't possible with a measly 20 kilo limit.
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Posted on: 10:13 am on July 17, 2003
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ChicagoGuy
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Quote: from X on 10:13 pm on July 17, 2003
JR -- the suit carrier trick.... don't they weigh the cabin bagage? (like to check it's not more than 7 kilos)
On my last 3 trips (NW/Tokyo, KLM/AMS and LH/FRA), they did not weigh my carry-on bag on the outbound or the return.
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Posted on: 11:21 am on July 17, 2003
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I can not recall ever having my carry-on luggage weighed, and I fly internationally quite frequently. I use this trick myself if I buy too much stuff. Put everything in a smaller backpack or bag and at the check-in I just tell them this will be carry-on while I lift it up in the air with a smile to make them think it's light.
Az Jim
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Posted on: 11:34 am on July 17, 2003
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rezyek
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better check first ... i got stopped at amsterdam airport and they checked everything ... you can "import" €200,- of clothing ... and i was just below that ... but i had to pay tax on 2 of the 3 cartons of cigarettes i took with me ... €42,- ...
sorry guys it's in dutch but i'll translate
from the site http://www.douane.nl:
Voor goederen die onder de waardegrens van € 175 vallen, en voor goederen, zoals drank, tabak en parfum, die binnen de maximale hoeveelheden blijven, betaalt u geen belasting.
ok in english:
you can import goods with a total value of €175 without paying tax on it. excluding liquor. tabacco and perfume.
ok so at customs they told me it was €200 but on the customs website it says €175 ...
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Posted on: 11:37 am on July 17, 2003
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hmmmm, thanks for the link rezyek -- I guess I've been very lucky in the past never to have been cornered on return at Schiphol. (I am always WAY over the 175 euro limit in new clothes and shoes alone)
Doesn't look like I'm going to be getting any new curtains after all 
ChigaoGuy, Re the cabin bagage limit... depends on which day you're going through Schiphol... they can be fanatic about the 7-kilo-limit one day and not even bother looking at it the next day. Although I've never had the same hassle anywhere else. I sometimes think the ground staff at Schiphol are nazi trained.
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Posted on: 1:02 pm on July 17, 2003
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