Slowly plotting my escape back the UK.
We don't have enough belongings to warrant the use of a logistics company (it's all basically books, documents, clothes, toys and some electronics).
Considered surface mail which seems pretty cheap. No real issue with the length of time it takes.
Also considered buying extra baggage from the airline. For example, you get one 1 x checked baggage as part of the flight, and then buy 9 extra bags:
British airways (23kg on each bag):
1 x GBP60
8 x GBP120
= 1020 for 230kg
Air France (23kg on each bag)
= 977 for 230kg
No idea if I'd need 230kg worth of baggage for the time being.
For the convenience of collecting your bags straight from the flight you've taken, it also seems pretty reasonably priced.
Any thoughts? Would you have to pre-book the baggage? Could the airline subsequently refuse?