subject: Package Forwarding Service Your Own Virtual Shopping Cart [print this page] A reliable and dynamic package forwarding service serves as your personal shopping office in the States. The service creates an address in US for you, receives packages, pays the bills through an US credit card, consolidates different packets into one or more packets, and finally bulk-ships them to you, wherever you are in the world. It also receives and retransmits mail and other communication; in effect, the package forwarding service is a sort of virtual purchase assistant.
What are the benefits you derive out of the address in US? You save good amount of money, get better quality products and enjoy great deal of convenience. Lets see how each advantage plays out with the package forwarding service.
Your address in US saves money in two ways on the price of the goods and shipping costs. Many goods and products are sold at lower prices in the US as result of frenetic competition and market forces. And, if you shop online or buy at an eBay auction, may be the prices will be rock bottom. As such buying various items in the US is a smart move, but there is a hitch. A large number of web stores or people who sell over eBay do not ship to international address. You could enroll with a Package forwarding service from a mail forwarding company to handle this issue. The forwarder will receive all the goods, pack them in manageably larger parcels, and dispatch them in bulk. The difference in cost of shipping individual parcels and bulk can work out to as much as 80%. A rough calculation is enough to show the true value of your address in US.
Then again, most shippers insist on payment only through US credit cards. The mail forwarding service facilitates this by paying your shopping bills through a US credit card (of course, you have to send advance payment to the mail/ package forwarding service provider).
Charges for the US address and other services vary widely amongst different mail/ package forwarding service providers and also because of fluctuations in the international shipping rates. So, to know the actual cost of the services, get hold of reliable and reasonable provider. A few of the characteristics of a trust worthy mail/ package forwarding service are - authorized by United States post office post box service center, authorized by reputed courier companies such as DHL, FedEx, and a registered member of the Associated Mail and Parcel Centers.
The address in US works well only if the provider has staff certified by AMPC to handle USA Post Office security documents and trained in International Mail Law.
Is address in US useful for US residents? Surely, suppose you are a frequent traveler or buy goods on line often. The package forwarding service holds the packets and dispatches them to the specified address and at specified time.
