https://www.amtrak.com/ship-luggage-to-your-destination
Yeah kinda if cool. A lot of cruise ship lines offer the same door to destination service.
Whats the charge?
American Airlines provides the same service at DFW at least as a way to skip baggage claim during extremely busy periods or if your bags were mishandled, flight is very late and you want to get home. AMR does it for free usually if it is because of their fault..........otherwise they charge $20-30 a bag. You just stop at the AMR lost baggage office and fill out a short form.
My bags probaly will get there before me. Of course there still Amtrak Express see
https://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Content_C&pagename=am/Popup&cid=1241245658041
"Amtrak" doesn't offer this service; they partnered with a New York 'concierge' service that goes to your location, carefully wraps your things, gets them where you need 'on time' and also ensures they return afterward. It does not take long on their site (www.luggagefree.com) before you begin to understand two things: they are very, very careful not to mention what it's going to cost while you are reading up about them, and they are a service targeting a very wealthy demographic.
Along the general lines of J.P. Morgan and the Corsair, pretty much all you want to know about the cost is summed up in their repeated tagline:
So its not "FREE"?!!...Let me do some homework and get back to you guys about rates?
"Free" only as in hands free, you don't have to carry your own luggage.
Their pricing structure: https://www.luggagefree.com/pricing/
Me thinks it might be cheaper to just buy some clothes once at destination
"Luggagefree" doesn't mean free luggage: more accurately, it means "free of luggage."
This service isn't meant for Everyman; it's intended for people who are willing to pay serious money for not schlepping their suitcases, etc. around. It's not cheap, let alone free. I often travel with a suitcase weighing 35 or so pounds. At their domestic rate of $5.80 per pound, that's $203. So for me that's not a great bargain. But under certain circumstances it might be, someday. For someone else that might be a reasonable price.
Yet if one figures that dragging the bag along and checking it at about $25 makes the $203 now a price of $178, that's 12% less, and one is not schlepping the bag, waiting forever at a stopped luggage carousel, etc. If your bag weighs half what mine does, you're paying half what I am, or $76.50.
I confess that sometimes when I'm on vacation or traveling, especially in Europe, I want to lighten my suitcase or make more room for souvenirs, so I have sometimes mailed home stuff like dirty laundry, clothes I'm not going to need, etc. That can cost a bunch of money, too, but it's a great feeling sometimes to ditch a good part of what I'm lugging around.
My 35 lb suitcase is always a great reason to take Amtrak and have a roomette or bedroom. No fee, right nearby if I need anything, etc, but for some people "luggagefree" will be a welcome choice.
As far as Amtrak services, on January 1 or 2, 1994, my wife and I travelled home from NYP in the bedroom of the Three Rivers. By my special arrangement with Amtrak, in our bedroom was a beautiful vase of flowers and a chilled bottle of champagne! How's that for an Amtrak special? Of course, I paid for it and it wasn't too expensive, but it really had a limited market.
Let's see if "luggagefree" lasts very long. I wish it success.
I checked with princess cruise, my cruise line. Thier Currier service charges 150 for 35 PDS and under and 178 for 36 to 50 PDS. Could buy them a airline ticket for that price. But some don't mind paying for service. That would include picking it up at the ship, boxing it and taking it to fed ex or dhl.
The US Post office will take your luggage and if you want to hit up dumpsters for boxes will ship you luggage via 2 nd class mail station to station general delivery. This is used often by hikers on the Appalacian Trail see-https://backpackingvegan.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/how-to-ship-boxes-to-yourself-on-the-appalachian-trail/
CJtrainguy "Free" only as in hands free, you don't have to carry your own luggage. Their pricing structure: https://www.luggagefree.com/pricing/ Me thinks it might be cheaper to just buy some clothes once at destination
Average bag for me is 40-50lbs. If I had to guess I would guess you could get a Cabbie to retrieve your luggage for less and deliver it.
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