Buying American Products Using Mail Forwarders
Let’s say you want to buy an American product online, and then need it to be delivered to your address outside the United States. Most American retailers do not have the logistics in place to send the products outside the U.S and if they do, they charge way too much or take too long to forward it to the customer.
So, what do international customers do? Do they put up with these delays or excess fees?
Not any longer. You’ll be glad to note that mail forwarding services act as the perfect solution to these needs. How it works is that there are various independent ‘mail and parcel forwarding services’ in the United States that will provide you with a U.S address (not a P.O Box address) which is unique to each of these providers, an after receiving your parcel or mail, will forward it promptly to your address using the likes of DHL, UPS and Fedex.
Apart from just forwarding your mail and parcels, some of these services also provide you other services such as the consolidation and repacking of your mail and parcels, online monitoring that will give the status of your package, scan and fax service as well as a personal shopper service that will help you make purchases using the payment method that you have, just in case it is not accepted by other merchants or even find bargains that you would not be able to access otherwise.
Websites such as myus.com, use2me.com, usglobalmail.com and bongous.com are prime examples of mail forwarding services that require you to register with them according to membership plans that are available while also paying a monthly fee for their services.