A degree in America is three or four years in furnished rooms. Shipping furniture into that is almost always more expensive than buying it there and selling it before you fly home.
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Term dates make this a scheduling problem more than a shipping one. Everything arrives at once in late summer, buildings are busy, and a shipment that misses your arrival by a fortnight is a genuine problem when you have nowhere to store it.
for most students the answer is boxes rather than a container, timed to arrive after you do, with anything bulky bought locally and sold again at the end.
Do not have boxes arrive before you do. Student accommodation will rarely accept a delivery for someone who has not moved in, and storage arranged in a hurry at the far end is expensive.
Books, course materials, specialist equipment and clothes are worth sending, because they are either hard to replace or expensive to buy twice. A few boxes by sea covers most of it at modest cost.
Bedding, kitchen equipment, lamps and anything bulky are almost always cheaper bought locally, used for the duration and sold or donated at the end.
Furniture is rarely worth shipping for a course. The cost of moving it in both directions usually exceeds what it would cost to furnish a room at each end.
Furnished rooms usually include more than people expect, and shipping duplicates of it is money spent twice.
Nobody will receive boxes for a student who has not yet moved in, and the storage bill starts immediately.
Anything you will sell at the end is better bought there. Anything you will carry home is worth shipping out.
Rarely. For a course of a few years in furnished accommodation, boxes by sea or air cost a fraction of a container and cover what actually needs to travel.
Books, course materials, specialist equipment and clothes. Things that are hard to replace or expensive to buy a second time.
Bedding, kitchen equipment and anything bulky. Buy it locally, use it, and sell or donate it before you fly home.
After you do. Accommodation will rarely accept a delivery for someone who has not moved in, and last minute storage is expensive.
Goods arriving separately from you need a declaration in the usual way. Ask CBP about your own position, because status affects treatment and published guidance varies.
Sea if you can plan several weeks ahead, which is much cheaper. Air if the timing has got away from you.
Worth planning before the final term. Shipping home in the middle of everyone else doing the same thing is the expensive way to do it.
Often yes, either locally or with the moving company. Ask before you need it rather than in June.
Often yes, either locally or through the moving company. Book it before the end of term, because everyone needs it in the same fortnight.
Send your UK collection address, the US city and campus, your arrival date and roughly how many boxes. A moving company from our network prices sea and air options.
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Written by Darren Benjamin, Founder.