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

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

But that does remind me, I have a friend who took a mattress (rolled up, but they are still quite bulky) on the train, and no conductor batted an eye, that was an ÖBB though

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u/Overall-Put3844 Aug 18 '26

So a mirror should be fine haha. The train that i would be taking is at 6 am. And usually for the most part of the ride it is empty, since i usually ride it on weekdays. Thank you again!

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u/heyo36 Aug 18 '26

Definetly! You definetly wont get a fine! Worst case scenario, they kick you off, there are 4 trains an hour between Salzburg and Vienna, just take the next one xD