What have you found to be the best and cheapest way to get an item from England to Australia that won't take forever!

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DHL

Royal Mail for small items.

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Too many cars, and too little time.

DHL, 1 week from London to delivery in Sydney.

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1969 Cooper "S"
1967 Mini Deluxe
1973 Clubman Van (the fleet spare)
1978 ex 1275 LS ("Wizard" Eaton Supercharged)
2015 HSV GenF GTS(occasional drive & tow car)
2019 MINI F55 Cooper S

i dont know if UPS operate out of the UK, but 2 days from New York to Alice Springs, then 1 day from the depot to my address.

Amazingly quick considering mail from Adelaide via Australia post can take over a week.

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Aussie Leyland, Aussie Factory, Aussie Mini S.

UPS was the fastest i've ever had stuff, but not cheap - 2-3 days
DHL was pricey, supposed to be signed for and then they just left it on the front porch, still took 7 days
Royal Mail - under 2kg is cheaper, takes 7-10 days everytime, over 2kg starts to get pricey as it goes via ParcelForce, same timeframe though

Cheapest was sending a big box full of stuff via shipping agent, took 6 weeks by boat!

+1 on UPS. Ordered Wednesday Night, in my hands Friday Morning. I can't even get local stuff that fast. Go figure!

Not cheap though, so get a price first.

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Royal Mail has done extremely well for me recently with some smaller stuff. I ordered some carby stuff from Burlen SU on our Thursday afternoon and it was here on our Tuesday morning. Quite amazing I thought.

Regards
Al

DHL is slow from the UK - took me 10days to get my last package but that was mostly because they handed it off to a 3rd party courier 50% owned by them (Couriers Please)

FedEx package sent at the same time came in 3-4days.

UPS is super fast, expensive but last time they even delivered on a weekend

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This'll probably get modded, by I see the problem straight away and considering this 'problem' 10 days is very fast.

Took them nearly a month to deliver once a driving distance of 30 minutes, another time a driver took an urgent delivery away with him for the weekend because he couldn't be bothered dropping it on a Friday afternoon, it was needed on the Saturday, but come Monday he got his arse roasted.

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UPS? well, glad to hear of others' good experiences, not so good if you live in a regional area (Cairns). Huge bottle neck in Oz, 2 days from UK to Sydney is great, cleared by brokerage in quick time, no fees to pay. Then the wheels fall off, almost 2 days farting about being re-scanned/re-cleared by brokerage before it gets a flight to Cairns. Local agent has had it since Saturday morning and still not delivered .

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Steve

I got my k1200 bmw motor bike head from the uk to Murray Bridge SA in 4 days through DHL

I got TNT from Huddersfield Mini Spares To Cairns in 5 Days!!!

Good Price Too

No Complaints Here!

dude, i live in Alice Springs at the moment, you cant get a bigger bottleneck than the desert. UPS 2 days.

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Aussie Leyland, Aussie Factory, Aussie Mini S.

UPS...Same to Brisbane...
2 days UK to Sydney and clear brokerage...
4 days from sydney to brisbane depot...
Still waiting for it to be delivered

Minimad

Ps good to see everybody got the 10% off minispares order in

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