Great. Thank you. Dw wants to buy some Xmas ornaments for gifts this year and im sure ill break them all before we get home.I have actually had the Art of Disney over at the Market Place ship a number of posters for me both to destinations within the United States and Internationally, all the got me to do was fill in a little slip with the shipping details, and that was it. Never got charged for this service either.
World of Disney at DTD may be an exception.
We had to ship something home on our last trip and we actually shipped it via FedEx from the front desk at the Wilderness Lodge. It was ten times cheaper to ship it from the front desk than it was from the Mercantile. If we had shipped it from the Mercantile, they were going to charge us $50 to ship it because that was the cost of the purchase. The stores tend to ship based on cost, not weight, whereas the hotel front desks ship via weight. So the lighter the object, the less the cost of shipping, unlike the stores where the lower the cost of the item means lower shipping costs.
We had several ornaments personalized at Disney's Days of Christmas, Downtown Disney and them shipped home. Arrived in about two weeks and intact!
Mystic (or anyone),
So, say we purchase clothes or plush and want to ship it all home, where do you get the box(es)?
Thanks in advance. I'd hate to tell our boys we can't buy something because of space issues.
Jennifer
P.S. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
Another alternative, if you know generally about what you're going to buy and what size box it will fit in, would be to get a couple Flat Rate Priority Mail boxes from the US Post Office. You can pre-pay the postage and leave the boxes folded flat in your suitcase. When you're ready, just pop them together, pack them full and then drop them off at the Front Desk asn ask them to put it in with their outgoing mail.
The boxes are available in 2 or 3 sizes, and are free when you get them from your local Post Office, and postage is $9.80 regardless of weight.
-Rob
Just take it down to the front desk and they'll have FedEx boxes available. We were shipping a poster and they had a FedEx Tube available for us.
It's a toss up to me
Disney Shipping - super easy, and insured
UPS / FedEx at the desk - a lot cheaper.
There were some very good suggestions about how to ship from resort front desk. If you want to use Disney shipping, as was said they charge based on cost of product, not weight. I shipped a bigfig home from Art of Disney in Epcot once. It was not cheap to ship, but I didn't want to take it back to the resort in its gigantic box either.
-dave
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