This interesting decanter was picked out by my nephew's girlfriend. I saw it as a challenge to get it for her. She received it today so I finally got to see it, and more importantly, that it made it to the UK with no damage. Everything was fine, all held in place inside the box and there was an outer box and some protective material in there too.She loved it and headed off home to put some whiskey in it.
I did have to engage a forwarding company to get this item to the UK with DHL. That turned out to be an expensive process as forwarding, shipping and customs all-told tripled the price of the item.
Maybe you could do international shipping yourselves at some point in the future as it would slightly reduce the overall cost and journey time. The packaging is clearly up to the job.