Hello,
I would like to know peoples experiences with mail forwarding services for purchasing items in the US and from amazon etc. I want the cheapest and most reliable company (of course :)
Thanks in advance.
Best Mail Forwarding service for US purchases?
jdogg on 10/07/2012 - 14:54
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Shipito.com, especially if you buy small items.
Their fee is only $1+Postage for items in envelopes.
Do you know where amazon ships their item from? Trying to figure it out so I can put it on shipito calculator.
The items I'm interested in are:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BDPYIC2/ref=noref?ie=UTF…
http://www.amazon.com/CRC-5351-Caliper-Synthetic-Grease/dp/B…
I've used ComGateWay for larger items, not cheap but quite reliable.
I used Shipito, everything worked as expected and their rates are cheap. Just don't choose the cheapo "Economy Airmail" shipping option - I chose this for a small package I didn't care about and it took 2 months to show up at my door.
Thanks for all your suggestions :)
Im pretty cheap so I guess its shipito for now.
Anyone have any other cheap companies they have dealt with?Can any of them do sea shipment? Buying from IKEA in the US seems to be half-price than here..
I think USPS stopped doing seamail a while ago, so most mail forwarding companies won't be able to do seamail.
If you know someone in the US you may be able to use a service like IQGlobal.com for large items like furniture. They charge about $150 per cubic meter for sea freight.
Those who have used shipto, from reading their forums it would seem they charge $8.50 for each package they receive, is that correct?
Yes. However, there's an option to forward small items/letters for only $1 instead of the usual $8.50. There's a form to be filled out, signed by a justice of peace/notary public and mailed to them along with your copies of your ID.
Thanks for that maldrat.
These is also an option where you pay a certain amount a month and this becomes $2.50.
You can take out this membership monthly or yearly.
Does anyone have any tips for forwarding a large package to Australia.
The dimensions are 50 x 22.5 x 48 inches and all the quoates I've seen are very very high.
edit - weight is 100 pounds.
You should try www.ReShipUS.com. we charge only $3 per package and we also offer personals shopping assistant, We offer 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, check customers review at our website. Our customers can enjoy the benefit as No US Sales Tax on anything purchase from US retailers because we are located in Delaware, USA, NO US sales tax state, you save money on US Sales Tax. We do not charge for small letters as long as you are using our service to shipping packaging. We offer Free Consolidation and Free Pictures with any packages as your request. You can check the shipping cost at our website, our shipping charge is one of the best shipping rate around, better than other Mail Forwarding Service Companies. For more detail, visit www.ReShipUS.com or chat with us. Thank you for your business.
How much can you do the following to Australia Sydney?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00BDPYIC2/ref=noref?ie=UTF…
http://www.amazon.com/CRC-5351-Caliper-Synthetic-Grease/dp/B…you can check the shipping cost at our website at http://www.reshipus.com/Caluclate-the-shipping-cost-at-www-R… . you will pay us $5 handling fee per package + your shipping cost, no hidden cost. check our customer review at http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.reshipus.com, we have customer from Australia given us the review already. Thank you.
as I know these are the cheapest
http://www.priceusa.com.au
when I tied them, they were free and only charge shipping and exchange fees. I am not sure if they are still free or notthey are not free they charge a % of the purchase.
also.. terrible customer service if things go wrong. avoid.
certainly avoid www.priceUSA.com.au. Not only they are overpriced, their customer service is rude and not quite honest. Says if the store gives further discount when you purchase over a certain amount of money, despite that the discount is listed on the stores' website, priceUSA does not transfer the discount to you. Their shipping cost has a huge marked up and they call the rest "handling costs" but their website clearly said no additional costs. They also charge $5 for a copy of the original store receipt but my experience was that they purposely made the scan copy so blurry that you can't see the exact figure.
= TOTALLY AVOID.
I can't tell you whether they're the cheapest, because I have used no others. I've used Ustooz a couple of times (after seeing a recommendation here) and have found the service they offer outstanding. The last time, they had the box sealed and ready to post when I decided I wanted to order something else. They were only too happy to open it up and repack, and it ended up costing me just cents more than the previous total.
http://www.ustooz.com/