Package Forwarding

Package Forwarding is an international shipping service offered by shipping companies to international online shoppers who want to do cross-border online shopping. Package Forwarding is becoming more and more popular among international shoppers nowadays because of the high growth rate of e-commerce websites and shipping limitations of most such websites.[1] Package forwarding service is provided by package forwarders to make cross-border shopping convenient and easy, getting rid of the problems in payment and shipping. A package forwarding service is different from mail forwarding. Mail forwarding refers to the mails in traditional meaning, or magazines or papers that you normally call mails, while package forwarding refers to the online purchases or orders that are shipped within a package.

Reasons

There are several reasons that caused package forwarding service into existence:

  1. Fast development of online e-commerce shopping
  2. The convenient of international checkout with PayPal and others
  3. The needs of shoppers in one country that desire to buy from online retailers from another country
  4. Transit safety and insurance features provided by some providers[2]

There are actually several obstacles towards a successful cross-border online shopping, and these include shipping and paying for orders. For instance, US online stores are popular worldwide, but some of them only ship to US addresses or they ask for high shipping international rate. So the package forwarding service here helps international shoppers in shipping their purchases from US to their home address or help them place an direct order with the US retailers if they do not non-US billing address.

Procedure

A package forwarding service works normally with 5 steps:[2][3][4]

  1. The shopper first gets a native shipping address from package forwarders
  2. Place an online order and ask the seller to ship your purchases to package forwarder warehouse
  3. Package forwarders handle the packages, such as repacking, consolidation or storage
  4. Shoppers pay the package forwarder for package handling and international shipping fee
  5. Package forwarder ship out and online shoppers receive the package at home

US package forwarding

There are package forwarders from different countries and asking for different prices for their services. Choosing a reliable package forwarding service is of great importance for a happy international shopping experience. The top US package forwarders include: USGoBuy, MyUs, Shipito, Stackry.[5]

See also

Some terms are related with package forwarding, but with different meanings, such terms include:

References

  1. ↑ Reilly, Claire (7 November 2014). "Package forwarding from the US to Australia: A complete guide". CNET. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Package forwarding - How It Works?". Forward2Me. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  3. ↑ "How it works". USgoBuy. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "How to Use a Package Forwarding Service". wikiHow. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  5. ↑ Zahra (2 April 2013). "Vise Feature: Best Parcel Forwarding Services for International Shoppers [UPDATE 3]". Tech Vise. Retrieved 13 January 2015.