TL;DR = Want to move a few belongings from QLD to TAS that won't fit in our car. OK if it takes a while to arrive. Looking for suggestions re courier vs (small load) removals company or other options I'm not aware of, hoping for under say $200 to achieve, please!
We are house sitters and don't have many possessions - everything mostly fits in our car as we move house to house… but a few larger items have been acquired for our current 6 month house sit, or have been in longer term storage at a friends place - like the espresso machine (gotta have good coffee!).
Moving from Sunshine Coast to Tas (hoping around December - assuming Covid not an issue by then) - initially wanting to just send my 12kg single speed bike (packed in an empty cardboard bike box from a bike shop) and a folding massage table (an Aldi one) which is in its own carry bag.
Thinking a courier might work but no idea of cost (and my very limited, can count on one hand, past experiences trying to estimate courier costs online always seems to be a very uncertain estimate or simply comes out with a crazy price, hence asking advice here).
Then also wondering, well if we are already sending a couple of items, maybe its actually worth making it a decent thing and adding in the coffee machine, 2-3 medium boxes of clothes/personal items (books etc) - but thats about it as the rest we can easily drive down with in the car (and will need with us on the way as we may end up house sitting along the way down, taking a month or two to drive down).
So the less we have to move with us, the easier it is to house sit… but the more expensive it will be to send more down to Tassie ahead of us (we have parents who can receive it).
We also have time, so we would be happy for it to sit somewhere until there was a 'gap' in someone else's load, for example. Is a partial load or not urgent courier even a thing?
Ideally we would send the bike, massage table and these other few boxes down ahead of us, saving us the need to travel with it or sell it and replace it when we get there, but my initial thoughts is that its only worth it if its less than say $200 to move these items down there, since the bike cost me around $250, the massage table $100, the coffee machine $200 and the clothes/books/pillows are just easier to move than replace, provided costs allow this. If relocation is more than say $200, probably easier to just sell and replace later(?)
There are one-way $5 rentals (usually campervans) where companies want vehicles moved around the country. You get a few days to drive it over for cheap and they get free labour essentially.
Example: https://www.drivenow.com.au/onewayrentals.jspc#/relocations/…