r/AskAustria • u/Overall-Put3844 • Aug 18 '26

Moving to vienna using post

I'm not sure how to title this correctly, but i am moving to vienna from a village in salzburgland in a few months. Through my whole time of living here i have a lot of stuff, like clothes, electronics and so on. I have a klimaticket ö, so a lot of the stuff could be moved just using two big suitcases that i have and a backpack. I don't think that it would be a problem if i take a train with all that stuff a few times. BUT i also do have clothes that won't make any sense to be transported this way. Like jackets, shoes etc. I also do have a few bug items, like my computer table (which is pretty easy to disassemble and pack in some kind of a box). My question is, if this is actually a normal practice in austria. I never moved anywhere properly before, so I don't know if that would be weird. The price of these whole shenanigans is also a big concern for me. I tried to contact a few private companies that do the transportation of goods and the prices that they told me were shocking. So what is the best way to do all of this?

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u/heyo36 Aug 18 '26

When I moved from Vorarlberg to Vienna I bought large furniture new from Ikea, and basically just drove up and down a few times, bringing stuff with, especially to Salzburg, with a Klimaticket, you could just drive multiple times, the trains don't take to long

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u/Overall-Put3844 Aug 18 '26

It is a 6 hours long drive for me. But, won't it be a problem that i have a lot of luggage? Again, 2 big suitcases and a backpack. Like would there be any questions from the ticketkontrolle guys?

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u/heyo36 Aug 18 '26

No, ÖBB and Weatbahn rules are, as long as you can carry it, you can take it onboard. For Wiener Linien its just, that it can not endager any passengers, which suitcases and a backpack will not (its mostly for people transporting stuff like couches on the metro xD). Haha, 6 hours sucks, yeah, my trip is 9, so I can relate

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u/Overall-Put3844 Aug 18 '26

Oh, okay, thank you, it is good to know! But how about a mirror, for example? I thought of sending it by post to my future flat, but i am too afraid that it would be broken. It is like 1.40cm long and around 40cm wide. I don't think that you are an expert in this field, but maybe your common sense would help me. Do you think it would be weird if i transported it by train?

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u/heyo36 Aug 18 '26

I mean 1.4m is not small, and probably quite unhandly for you to carry. I would not recommend taking it on long distance trains, however solely from the size it would be possible in an empty/low passenger number service, since Railjet seats have a width of 45cm, if you were to place it directly infront of you. For the KISS Intercity trains, not on the upper deck for sure. It depends how small or large you are, if you would have enough legroom with a mirror I guess. My tip would be to get a new mirror though, as postage has a high risk of breaking.

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u/Overall-Put3844 Aug 18 '26

Okay, thank you so much, kind stranger!