After using Stackry for 6months now I have found them reliable but rather expensive. I'd like to know what services other ozbargainers use that they trust for price and reliability when it come to postage forwarding.
Which Postage/Shipping Forwarder Do You Use?
Leagleshigh5 on 13/06/2017 - 09:01
Poll Options
- 0AmForward.com
- 0Australia Freight Forwarder Australia
- 1Australia Post ShopMate
- 0Beda Box
- 0ComGateway
- 0Express From US
- 0Forwardit.us
- 0HopShopGo
- 0JPN-Depot
- 0My UK
- 0My US
- 0MyMallBox
- 0MyUSA
- 1Other (please post in comments)
- 0Parcelbound.com
- 1PriceUSA
- 0ReShip.com
- 0Ship2au
- 8Shipito
- 0Shopfans
- 0Stackry
- 0Tenso
- 0US to Oz
- 0USA Box
- 0USA2Me
- 0Usendhome
- 0USGoBuy
- 1ViaBox
- 0Vyking Ship
- 0Zenmarket
Comments
I voted Shipito, but really couldn't recommend them.
At the start of last year they significantly increased their processing charges (which means on average it's $5USD per received package for them to receive it, and then consolidate it into another box [ie, with other stuff]) - there are ways to reduce this depending on how much you use it, but it sucks.
Worse than this, they were purchased by an international shipping company. Since that time their best (cheap/fast) shipping to AU (via Toll Express) has virtually disappeared - and their significantly slower (and in in-house) 'Shipito Preferred with AU Post' postage is the only reasonable priced option. This works by their parent company eventually shipping to Sydney and then dropping it into the Australia Post system. For me in WA, it means what used to take 4 working days with Toll regularly takes 12-15 working days.
My last package sat in their warehouse from 22 March (when I paid and instructed it to be sent) until 27th March until they scanned it for shipment. It still didn't appear to move until the 1st April and finally arrived here on the 12th!
With all the incredibly overpriced options we're stuck with in Australia, I've still never seen anything so overpriced that it's worth the hassle of using a shipping forwarder, once you spend the hour or two trying to figure out how much you'll actually be charged, and do the exchange rate conversion, and factor in warranty considerations, etc.
A great idea, but in the end, the US post and courier services just charge way too much to post things overseas.
UK businesses like OzGameshop and Zavvi are getting all the business from us because the UK postal service can somehow send us stuff for half the price the Americans do.
Must be costing the yanks billions in lost revenue from all the US small businesses that could be selling to us if the postal service was more efficient and not for-profit.