Shipping with "M Bags"

[Kamakiri]

Hey all - I've been watching the forums for a while, but now I have a few questions of my own that I'm hoping someone can help me with. I'm in the process of moving back to the States, and I'm trying to pack the 200 manga that I bought here. When I took them to the post office to ship home the total was extremely high (the guy even said so, and the website I use to calculate the amounts that has never been wrong said it would be half as much as well).

So...I'm trying to find a cheap way to ship them home and I was wondering if anyone has ever shipped anything by M Bags. Does anyone know how big the bags are? The websites I've found says 30kg max, but it doesn't say how big the bag is.

I also want to send my futon home and I wasn't sure which method would be best. Most shipping companies require at least a 1cu. meter box, and my futon is definitely much smaller than that. Would takkyubin or post office be cheaper, or would it be cheaper to just take it on the plane with me and just pay the excess charges?

Also (sorry for so many questions...) has anyone used the airport takkyubin service? I live only an hour away from Narita, so I didn't think it would be too expensive, but none of my Japanese friends have used it so I wasn't sure how much it would be.

Thanks so much in advance for any help you could provide!!

 

[pipokun]

M-bag->Tokubetsu Yutaiﾂ 窶愿≫?｢ﾃ岩?嚢窶佚
Surface mail->Funabin 窶魯窶｢ﾃ

First you cannot find any cheaper sevice than postal surcace mail.

You have to bring all of your manga to the central postal office in your area when you ship them in M-bags.

I don't know how weigh you bring your luggage to Narita, but you should be careful about its weight. I suppose that most airlines allow you bring up to 20 kilo luggage when you take an economy seat to the US, and air line companies are not supposed to be generous.

About the Takyubin to the airport, I used it from Narita to my home in Tokyo. It cost me less than 2k yen, if I remember correctly.

 

[Kamakiri]

Thank you so much for your help Pipokun!! I figured the post office was the cheapest unless I was moving furniture, so I guess I'll just stay with that and not try to bring oversized luggage on the plane. The takkyubin service looks even better now...for once something seems cheap in Japan!!

 

[Mike Cash]

I believe if you take 10 or more parcels to the post office and ship them at the same time you can get a 10% discount. It was that way several years ago. Don't know about now.

 

[Hiroyuki Nagashima]

How to send a cheap load

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