I use Postbox Courier when importing from UK/US, pretty cost effective and fast - and you can combine orders into one package to reduce costs for a lot of stuff.
I'm doing an order from Tao, and it seems most people round here say (or at least it looks like to me) that Buffalo is more reliable than most other options, but are they cheaper than something like EMS? I've used Postbox-Courier a lot, but they're quite expensive, so I want to try something...