Meet the man who posted himself from London to Australia in a wooden BOX

.Reg Spiers posted himself from London to Perth in a wooden crate in 1964

.He survived the 63-hour journey via Paris, Bombay and Singapore

.Took with him a bottle of fruit juice, two tins of spaghetti, a packet of biscuits, a bar of chocolate and a tube of fruit gums

.Spiers went on to travel the world with his lover, assuming false identities and smuggling narcotics for international drug syndicates

.He was sentenced to death in Sri Lanka in 1984 for plot to smuggle heroin

.He had his conviction overturned and was extradited back to Australia

.Now 73, Spiers lives in Adelaide with his partner and two dogs

When Australian Reg Spiers found himself penniless in London without enough money for a plane ticket home to Adelaide, he decided to post himself back in a wooden box.

It was 1964, and the 22-year-old champion javelin thrower was in Britain, desperate to get back to Australia for his daughter's birthday and to see his wife.

He showed up out of the blue at the East London flat of his close friend – English javelin thrower John McSorley – and presented him with his problem.

Too impatient to work and save up the money for a plane ticket, together Spiers and McSorley hatched a harebrained scheme to build a timber box and send Spiers back to his home country via air freight.

What followed was a nightmarish 63-hour journey across three continents in which he was delayed in fog for 24 hours, dropped from a forklift and almost suffered dehydration after being left on a scorching tarmac in Bombay, India.

But Spiers survived, and went on to live an extraordinary life in which he travelled the world with his lover, assumed false identities and smuggled narcotics for international drug syndicates.

His sensational life has been documented in a book by McSorley's wife and son, Julie and Marcus McSorley, See the picture blow,

Reg Spiers

Miraculously he survived the 63-hour journey across three continents inside the 1.52m by 91cm by 76 cm box