Quote Originally Posted by New Shoes View Post
Jeez! That seems a lot of money.

So what was the total cost to you in £s to send the box, get it cleared by customs and get it to your girl? Also what size was the box?

Thanks
NS
£62 courier + an extra charge of £18 as they said it weighed more (don't believe that!), then £79 customs & VAT, then a courier service charge of £11 for them making the payment, which they will then charge me ) as of course Suzie can't afford the 6000 pesos charge), so £170 altogether! The box is 91cm long x 31cm wide x 31cm high, weighing (I thought) 15kg. I marked the value of it down too, bit thought I'd better not mark it down much more as they would be too suspicous etc. would have been so much cheaper to have sent her money, but of course it's not quite the same as surprise presents and it's not very personal.

Like I said before with those costs + what I spent on the presents I could have flown there for cheaper which is why I'm so annoyed!

Balikbayan box next time for sure! That's a very expensive lesson learned!