Shipping a bike to Europe?

[NbyNW]

Would you really have to pay customs on something you already own? We took road bikes with us on the plane to Europe and didn't have to pay extra for that.

She might.

I don't know about Italy, but in our recent move to Canada, our vacuum cleaner was inexplicably left behind. We had our property manager ship it to us, and got charged about $70 by Canada customs.

I suppose I could have driven down to the customs office with our personal property manifest and contested it, but I decided it wasn't worth the time and cost of gas for what I did not expect to be a successful mission. Easier to expense it to our relocation allowance.