Hi
When we got our apartment we sent a half pallette. It was collected from our house in the UK and was delivered to TDLT 5 days later. We were able to track it on line all the way. It cost about £180, plus the cost of a pallet sized box which I think was about £10. We thought the service was great and its amazing how much you can pack into a pallet, we even had two mirrors which were perfectly fine. It was great for the wife to get all her favourite cosmetics, shampoos etc over as normally you can't take these through airport security in hand baggage.
The company we used was Pallet2Ship http://www.pallet2ship.co.uk but there are others out there. Just make sure they do domestic collection.
Hope that helps with an alternative.
Jim..