Shipping a large bag of sports equipment

[Bad Seed]

Hello everyone, Can I pick your brains? Next year, my significant other and I are going o/s for 6 weeks to the 'Stans. When the tour finishes, we are travelling from Turkmenistan to Dubai so he can compete in a Veteran's fencing tournament. Because we obviously don't want to lug the very large fencing bag with us around for 4 weeks, what is the best way of getting this from Australia to Dubai 4 weeks ahead of time? I am a bit wary as recently, a colleague shipped his luggage a much shorter distance (London to Bath) when he was having a gap between arriving (from Australia) and a wedding and despite being signed for twice, it disappeared off the face of the planet, never to be seen ever again.

 

[tdimdad]

How big is the package? Could it travel using a courier? If yes, one approach might be to use services like Sendle. You prepare the package otherwise but then place the courier request e.g. a week before the games and have someone at home to print & affix the courier's address label into the package & hand it over when the courier arrives to pick it up.

I've used them both domestic and sending stuff to EU or US. This way you have less opportunities for the package to go missing at the receiving end before you arrive there.

 

[Bad Seed]

How big is the package? Could it travel using a courier? If yes, one approach might be to use services like Sendle. You prepare the package otherwise but then place the courier request e.g. a week before the games and have someone at home to print & affix the courier's address label into the package & hand it over when the courier arrives to pick it up.

I've used them both domestic and sending stuff to EU or US. This way you have less opportunities for the package to go missing at the receiving end before you arrive there.

Thanks, I'll have a look at them -the bag is slightly bigger than a golf bag and probably weighs about the same, fully laden.

 

[Mattg]

Have you had a look at Send My Bag?

 

[Bad Seed]

Have you had a look at Send My Bag?

Thanks for the tip, I'll have a look