Certainly one of the more frustrating things about purchasing a longboard surfboard (I recall terms like "elephant gun" and "rhino chaser" used quite often for longboards in the 1960's, altho' most people just say "gun"...any board longer than eight feet or so) is finding a seller who offers shipping. Almost all of them are local pick-ups only, unless you're dealing with a surf shop. UPS, DSL, and the USPS don't handle longboards because they exceed their combined width/length/thickness crating criteria. The weight of your typical balsa or foam longboard is never an issue. So that means you're left with freight carriers like truckers and airlines and others who happen to be coming your way with it. Connecting usually shouldn't be a problem. There are several surfing forums like surfline.com you can go to ask questions on their message boards. And then there's sites like uship.com you can go with where people can take items your way like a rideshare/carpooling forum. That's usually the cheapest way just short of knowing friends who travel a lot. If you're overseas, there are flyers/airline passenger boards like flightlevel350.com where maybe you can get someone to take your longboard as checked luggage next time they book a flight your way. That's pretty much your only option if you're off the mainland on some tropical island or other international destination. The problem is--many airlines require that the board be bagged, padded, crated to their specs, and the fin must be removed. The skeg removal bit is a real dilemma if you have a vintage board in the days before fin boxes, or you have a board shaped by a hometown or specialty surfcrafter who glasses the fin (s) permanently to the tail. Any credible moving/shipping company will box your quivver to shipper's specs and be able to insure it. A lot of folks want to take along their board to Hawaii or Australia or some other surf hot spot from the United States on vacation for a week or two--the best bet really is to buy a board once you get there, and sell it when you leave. If you got a valuable board you're insuring, take detailed pics fore and aft, dead-on front and tail, and along both top and bottom, and permanent skeg detailing the attachment so that any dings/breakage that show up when you pick it up can be evidence in an insurance claim. When you win a bid on a board on eBay, get the seller to e-mail you similar pics, and have them fax or e-mail a hi-res copy of the shipping order.