luggage shipping services

Luggage Shipping Services Defined and Contrasted

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This article is aimed to bring forward the most important features of current LUGGAGE SHIPPING SERVICES which you may successfully use when traveling by plane. Moreover, we also decided to compile tables giving information on the rates as well as the shipment times pertaining to these types of services.

Luggage Shipping Services Defined

A luggage shipping service may be broadly defined as another simpler and more convenient way of checking your baggage when you travel by plane. This method of forwarding your luggage is, as a general rule accessible, safe as well as guaranteed to arrive on time. Your luggage will thus be picked up from your home and shipped directly to your destination (your hotel, cruise ship or vacation home). You simply pack and contact them – they take care of the rest.
You’ll therefore be able to avoid pulling or dragging your luggage to and from the airport and, most importantly, bypass long check-in lines. Or, in other words, you’ll go through the whole check-in procedure with a beaming smile. You’ll have your baggage forwarded to your point of destination, often by DHL, FedEx, or UPS.

One of the most important ADVANTAGES of using such a luggage shipping service is represented by the fact that your baggage is delivered at the point of your destination with the minimum of fuss. You won’t have to worry about checking any bags on your flight. Besides, carrying heavy bags and massive items to and from airports and waiting to check in and claim baggage may, by all means, annoy any traveler.

Overall, travelers can spend more than two hours waiting in check-in lines, not to mention the baggage claim during a round trip flight. You’ll be able to use this time for yourself if you choose to use luggage-shipping services. Furthermore, you won’t need to carry or drag weighty and sometimes bulky bags in a cab since you’ll only need to worry about how to get to your hotel. This is an advantage that is received with gladness and happiness by frequent travelers and families alike.

What is more, it may be cheaper to have your luggage dealt with by a luggage shipping service. Many airlines charge a lot for large, bulky, or heavy luggage. These services will, more than often, carry out this task better than the airlines. However, perhaps one of the major DISADVANTAGES of shipping services lies in the fact that, depending on the WEIGHT of your luggage you may end up paying more that if you had checked it with your carrier.

Nevertheless, you’ll be able to obtain better prices provided your ship earlier. These services will, as often as not, appoint your shipment to get to the destination before you do so that you can board your plane knowing that your luggage is awaiting your arrival. On time luggage delivery is therefore guaranteed. Besides, you need your luggage when you get to your destination, rain or shine. And if the unthinkable happens and an item somehow arrives later than scheduled, you will not be charged for that shipment.

Additionally, some of the shipping services will reimburse you for any consequential expenses that you incur, including replacement of critical items that are delayed.

In addition, your luggage will be monitored permanently. Therefore, if anything goes wrong, they’ll be able to fix the problem in an instant and make sure they deliver your baggage exactly where you asked them.

Good to Know

  • It is essential that you contact your hotel in advance! Inform them that your baggage will get to the destination earlier than you. The hotel staff will more than certainly store your bags safely until you arrive. You may have to pay a fare in this case, so be sure you ask this too. On the other hand, if the hotel has no clue that you scheduled your bag to arrive earlier, they may as well, turn it away and leave you without your suitcases.
  • Even though they have no limitations in so far as baggage weight is concerned, it is certainly a bright idea to weigh your luggage before you ship it. Most of them are happy to allow bags of any size or weight. However, luggage-shipping services have weight limits for different types of bags, i.e. duffel bag, roller bag, upright suitcase, garment bag.
  • In addition, evaluate the dimensions of your bags and suitcases; consider the length, width, and height of your bag. And compare them to the limits set by the service you intend to use.
  • Examine the insurance policy used by the service. It’s good to know what options you have in case something happens to you luggage. Some services allow you to insure your luggage almost four times the maximum covered by major airlines.

Large Bag (up to 65 lbs.) Shipped from New York to Los Angeles (Round Trip)

Luggage Shipping Service
One Business Day
Two Business Day
Three Business Day
Four Business Day
Price / lb.
$179.00
n/a
n/a
n/a
$2.75
$216.36
$92.54
n/a
n/a
$0.76
$498.34
$398.04
$288.56
$156.42
$2.03
$594.00
$548.00
$422.00
n/a
n/a
$633.72
$491.64
$394.22
$102.24
$1.57
$647.14
$540.02
n/a
n/a
$1.69
$669.36
$559.92
$386.08
$143.22
$2.20
$712.42
$540.00
$465.74
n/a
$4.53
$785.34
$608.464
$482.68
n/a
$1.27
$819.00
$631.26
n/a
n/a
$3.76

*15% fuel surcharge and standard $40 pick up fee, conditional on a $2.00 charge per mile corresponding to outside standard retrieval zones.

**Weight limit of 60 lbs. (Sports Express and Virtual Bellhop are partner companies and therefore charge the same)

***Weight limit of 50 lbs.

Small Bag (up to 25 lbs.) Shipped from New York to Los Angeles (Round Trip)

Luggage Shipping Service
One Business Day
Two Business Day
Three Business Day
Four Business Day
Price / lb.
$90.94
$40.48
n/a
n/a
$1.10
$298.30
$232.98
$176.66
$119.08
$3.04
$312.00
$276.00
$218.00
n/a
n/a
$310.12
$227.82
$94.74
$54.90
$2.20
$304.86
$236.74
n/a
n/a
$2.14
$330.28
$260.62
$178.60
$82.82
$3.31
$318.62
$252.50
$237.50
n/a
$6.50
$428.48
$319.24
$253.44
n/a
$9.11
$360.80
$272.38
n/a
n/a
$7.12
*Prices may change.

**15% fuel surcharge and standard $40 pick up fee, conditional on a $2.00 charge per mile corresponding to outside standard retrieval zones.

***Sports Express and Virtual Bellhop are partner companies and therefore charge the same fees.

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