Consolidated air shipments typically run 5–8 days from supplier dispatch to delivery at your door. Express direct services move even faster, with same-week dispatch from origin and priority handling at both ends.

Consolidation combines your orders with other shippers on a scheduled departure, giving you wholesale per-kilo rates with a predictable weekly cadence. Express direct is a dedicated service for urgent stock — launch weeks, reprints, and trending titles — prioritised end-to-end at a premium.

Air freight is priced on chargeable weight — the greater of actual weight or volumetric weight. Book Systems passes on wholesale per-kilo rate, so small and large shippers alike get fair pricing.

If your supplier is unable to ship locally, or your supplier agreement includes collection, we can collect on your behalf. Suppliers will often inlcude local shipping to a Book Systems depot at origin. We handle the consolidation, export paperwork, and uplift onto your chosen flight.

We do, end-to-end. Book Systems manages export clearance at origin, the air uplift, import clearance at destination, and final-mile delivery to your door or depot. One team, one invoice, one point of contact.

Yes. Card stock, paper, magazines, stationery, vinyl LPs, and most general cargo can travel alongside your books at the same wholesale rates. Talk to us about any restricted or dangerous goods.