Best way to send belongings?
My daughter will be going to DC for grad school. What would be the safest and least expensive way of going about sending her stuff? Mostly clothes and bedding/sheets etc?
May 7, 2018
My daughter will be going to DC for grad school. What would be the safest and least expensive way of going about sending her stuff? Mostly clothes and bedding/sheets etc?
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I have sent two sons off to college back east. For each we bought two plastic trunks -- available at Container Store and Amazon. They are exactly the maximum size for airplane baggage and can be locked with a TSA lock -- or just zipties. They are pretty indestructible, are good for storage, and you can slap a label on them and ship them by UPS or FedEx if you prefer that option. After four years of going back and forth and serving as storage during school, we passed the trunks on to other families sending students off. Totally the way to go.
Buy the bedding/sheets there. Our student managed with a couple of suitcases. For the intermediate years she mostly stored stuff at a storage facility that picked up at the dorms. She would mail home a small box or two of books each year. This year (the last) she mailed 4 small boxes -- 2 books, 2 other things that wouldn't fit in the suitcases.
We sent our daughter to school with a huge duffel, a suitcase and a carry-on the plane and sent EVERYTHING else to school via online orders.
We carried a few things to make sure the first night was workable if she couldn't get packages. At her school the mailroom opens a small warehouse in August to start receiving packages. It was so easy to order and send everything. We carried another bag back over Parent's Weekend. Worked well.