In an effort to find out what
had happened, McSorley alerted the media, and Spiers quickly became a sensation in his home country.
But back in England, John McSorley,
who had built the crate and delivered Spiers to the airport, was desperately worried about his friend.
An Australian, Reg Spiers, spent three days in a wooden box to get home in the city of Perth,
after he woke up in the situation of being alone and penniless in London.
Although the cost of sending such a large and
heavy cargo would have been more than a passenger seat, Spiers knew he could send himself cash-on-delivery-
and worry about how to pay the fees once he arrived in Australia.