When a sender has reported this problem to me by email when trying to send a full bike down under, I've three times now been successful with the following;
Go back to the post office & state that the recipient has explained that Australia Post will deliver as the it is a common interpretation mistake.... What is meant is two sides, not the girth.
If it doesn't work, go to another post office...
I've never not received a bike
Anthony Kinder Perth, Western Australia (the worlds most isolated capital city)
Sent from my iPhone
On 20/02/2009, at 3:38 AM, Via Bicycle <viabicycle@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, Ray and jon are correct. Whatever the case, it was shipped and
> received in excellent condition.
> I guess I was lucky!
> now I know for next time.
> joel ralph flood
> http://bikeville.blogspot.com/
> philadelphia, PA
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jon Fischer <cuda2k@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Appears his local USPS office may have misread Austria for
>> Australia. I re
>> cently shipped a frame to Germany which has a 108" limit, as does a
>> numbe
>> r of European countries. Unfortunately for the frame in question
>> and it's
>> potential destination of Australia, it is indeed a limit of 79" as
>> Mr. Do
>> bbins states. Here's the USPS website information on the Int.
>> Priority siz
>> e limit and the exceptions.
>>
>>
>>
>> http://pe.usps.gov/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jon Fischer
>> Dallas, Texas, USA
>> http://velobase.com
>>
>> ---
>> ---
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> ------
>> The Greatest Trophy of all is the sense of Accomplishment
>> http://velobase.com | http://thecuda.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:43:34 -0800
>>> From: raydobbins2003@yahoo.com
>>> To: viabicycle@gmail.com; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>>> Subject: Re: [CR] shipping frame from US to Australia.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Ralph, the guys at your Post Office must like you, or they don't
>>> know
>> what
>>> they're doing and you got lucky. The max size for Priority Int'l
>>> is 79".
>>> The limit goes up to 108" with Global Express Guaranteed (GXG),
>>> and t
>> he
>>> price of shipping a 58cm frame by GXG would be about $400.
>>>
>>> Looks like your Post Office gave you the GXG size restriction, but
>>> at t
>> he m
>>> uch lower Priority price.
>>>
>>> I helped out Greg Softley a few times by receiving bikes from US
>>> sellers
>> wh
>>> o didn't want to ship outside the US. I would tear the bike down
>>> and re-
>>> package it to make it as small as possible and then ship it via US
>>> Postal
>> S
>>> ervice. It was never less than $300, not including the wheels!
>>>
>>> This is what the the last re-packaged box looked like:
>>>
>>> http://www.raydobbins.com/
>>>
>>> This is the inside of the box:
>>>
>>> http://www.raydobbins.com/
>>>
>>> This particular frame was a 54 c-c, and it still was over the 79"
>>> size
>> limi
>>> t. I don't believe you can box it any smaller than this.
>>>
>>> Maybe next time I can send you the box and you can ship it through
>>> your p
>> os
>>> t office? ;)
>>>
>>> Ray Dobbins
>>> Miami Florida USA
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Thu, 2/19/09, Via Bicycle <viabicycle@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Via Bicycle <viabicycle@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [CR] shipping frame from US to Australia.
>>> To: "jeffrey piwonka" <jmpiwonka@yahoo.com>
>>> Cc: "classic rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>>> Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009, 10:04 AM
>>>
>>> Jeff,
>>> I recently(jan. 2009) sent an on-topic frameset to Australia US
>>> priority airmail for around $80, i think. it may have been less, but
>> I
>>> know it was not more than $80. It was just a frame and fork(58cm),
>>> so
>>> the box was able to be smaller as the fork was not installed. I
>>> had no
>>> size restrictions problem. Just look on the USPS website, I think
>>> the
>>> max girth is 108" and that is easy to do a frameset under that. A
>>> lot
>>> harder to do a complete bike with wheels, but is possible.
>>> joel ralph flood
>>> http://bikeville.blogspot.com/
>>> philadelphia, PA
>>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:48 AM, jeffrey piwonka <jmpiwonka@yahoo.c
>> om>
>>> wrote:
>>>> I've got some parts on ebay, one being a frame.
>>>> I've had a question about shipping the frame to Australia and I
>>>> think
>>> there is no possible way to do it at a reasonable cost.
>>>> USPS being the only possibility and they have some size
>>>> restrictions th
>> at
>>> aren't generous enough for a frame and fork...
>>>>
>>>> Am I correct?
>>>>
>>>> some on topic parts that the US guys can see.
>>>> http://ebay.com/
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeff Piwonka
>>>> austin, texas usa.