International move

[BrickG]

wow that's ridiculously expensive and since the company I'm probably going to is a startup there's no way they'd pay that.

I guess... I'll have to risk standard mail...

[CP5670]

Thanks for posting your experience on this. Good to see that it worked out well.

The last time I moved (only about 220 miles), I had a moving company take most of my stuff but handled the Lego myself with the help of family. I think loose pieces are easy to handle as long as you package them up correctly. I gave the movers all my MISB sets and spare parts. Built models are the main problem, especially if you have a lot of them. Frankly, I wouldn't trust the movers to handle those, especially since your stuff gets mixed with other people's things in the moving trucks, and disassembling and rebuilding them would have taken months and was not an option. I asked the movers for a lot of cardboard and plastic boxes, and bagged each model individually with shopping bags, with heavier models like the modular buildings going in at the bottom. My minivan and a second car had enough room to fit everything at the time. My collection has grown quite a bit since then but I plan to do the same thing if I move again, even if it's a much longer distance.