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Shipping costs to Australia?

rnoldh

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Hi, Question to our experienced sellers. Anyone have a ballpark cost to ship a suit fromTexas,USA to Australia?
 

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Originally Posted by VMan
Typical weights of items:

(note that I weighed a few items I have in stock to find these numbers)

- Cotton dress shirts: 8-15 ounces, depending on fabric weight and shirt size
- Lightweight sweaters: 7-14 ounces
- Mid to heavyweight sweaters: 14-25 ounces
- Jeans: 22-30 ounces depending on size and denim weight
- Lightweight sport coats: 20-30 ounces depending on size and material
- Midweight sport coats: 25-35 ounces " "
- Heavyweight sport coats: 35-45 ounces " "
- Lightweight cotton/linen/crepe wool pants: 12-20 ounces " "
- Midweight worsted wool pants: 14-25 ounces " "
- Heavy flannel wool pants: 15-30 ounces " "
- Suits: do the math
- Silk neckties: 1.5-2.5 ounces
- Leather belts with standard-sized metal buckles: 4-6 ounces
- Pocket squares: under an ounce, probably 1/4 to 1/2
- Shoes: 30-45 ounces (without trees) depending on size and construction
- Ankle boots: 36-50 ounces (w/o trees)
- Sneakers: 25-40 ounces
- Shoe trees: 16-24 ounces per pair)


Priority Mail tyvek envelopes: .5oz
Priority Mail shirt boxes: 7oz
Priority Mail shoe boxes: 7.5oz
Tie-sized bubble mailer: 1oz
Shirt-sized bubble mailer: 1.5oz

http://www.styleforum.net/showpost.p...16&postcount=8

Once you get a ballpark estimation for the weight, peruse this tool:
http://ircalc.usps.gov
 

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Thanks!

About $35 should do it.
 

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