Sold Shipping to Army Post Office (APO)or Fleet Post Office (FPO) Addresses

[david in german 10+ year member]

I just wanted people to know a little info about APO mailing. Our Soldiers and Civilians working for the Military overseas have official US Postal Addresses called APO or FPO addresses just like people in CONUS. People at APO/FPO addresses have a lot of problems with purchases made online because the shippers usually do not understand how simple the process is. The most difficult part of mailing to an APO or FPO is just getting to the Post office to send the item. The sender will need to fill out a customs form to list the items being shipped to ensure no dangerous goods are being mailed. DO NOT USE UPS!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

Cost :

The cost is just like sending to NY. The US Government has a facility that receives the items and then they are put on military flights to take them to their final destination at no additional cost to the shipper or seller.

One problem that most people encounter is the confusion between UPS and US Postal. UPS will not deliver to an APO or FPO because they need a physical address to deliver to. Since Soldiers and Civilians do not officially live overseas they normally do not have a registered physical address (See the problem with UPS now) causing a conflict.

Addressing an APO or FPO:

When addressing the item keep it simple. The persons UNIT or CMR , then the Box Number (CMR is Consolidated Mail Room) is the first line under the name of receiver. The Next line is APO or FPO then the land area designator like AE (Army Europe) then the zip code. So as an example;

Joe Jones

CMR 114, Box 001

APO AE 09021

There is no need to add United States at the bottom of the address because it is an official US Address. DO NOT USE UPS!

Payments:

People that USE Paypal also have no problems because Paypal also supports the overseas service members and does have confirmed APO/FPO addresses.

I hope that this may help someone in the future and make people feel a little more comfortable with dealing with APO/FPO customers.

Did I mention, DO NOT USE UPS!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eek.gif.771b7a90cf45cabdc554ff1121c21c4a.gif

Mods, Is there a way to get this stickied?

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[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

Cool story, bro.

No really... it ***** getting stuff mailed over here in korea. Especially when 90% of online sellers don't ship to "overseas" addresses, even though the port call is in san francisco //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif and when they do ship to apo, they inflate the shipping to outrageous prices.

 

[ramos 5,000+ posts]

also be aware of the country they are in. Certain items can't go to certain countries. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

http://search.usps.com/search?site=%28USPS_com%29%7C%28News%29&sort=date%3AD%3AL%3Ad1&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=uspsSearch&proxystylesheet=uspsSearch&num=15&numgm=15&q=apo+fpo

 

[david in german 10+ year member]

Cool story, bro.

No really... it ***** getting stuff mailed over here in korea. Especially when 90% of online sellers don't ship to "overseas" addresses, even though the port call is in san francisco //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/rolleyes.gif.c1fef805e9d1464d377451cd5bc18bfb.gif and when they do ship to apo, they inflate the shipping to outrageous prices.

Yeah buddy.. They charge for the drive to the PO:furious:

I just hope this helps someone out.

Enjoy your Soju!

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[BeAlLsTaR13 10+ year member]

Yeah buddy.. They charge for the drive to the PO:furious:

thats what i told this one guy on ebay, when he asked why shipping was so much for an item that weighed almost 3pounds.. and i asked 6.49 for shipping.. it came out to like 10 something, he still complained and i said i charge for gas to PO, told him closest was 25mi away, i can walk there in less than 5 mins //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif people are dicks -_-

 

[dub22 10+ year member]

true this im in kuwait rite now n it does **** get crap shipped

 

[david in german 10+ year member]

Mods, can you sticky this for future sellers?

 

[joakwin 10+ year member]

im in the uk right now, Raf Mildenhall

and it ***** because even alot of people on this site won't

ship to apo because they don't know how to do it

oh yeah, shipping usps flat rate boxes to apo is gonna be the cheaper way

to ship to us overseas, as long as whatever it is fits into the boxes

and i hate that people charge more to ship to NY, its still in the states

so i don't see how companies can charge more to ship to NY

peace

 

[LowEndTheory 10+ year member]

Check out ShipitAPO.com It is a forwarding company that gives you a physical address in the states and then forwards the items to you through USPS. I have used it several times in the past for vendors or ebay auctions that won't ship to APO addresses.

 

[david in german 10+ year member]

Bump for a sticky //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[david in german 10+ year member]

bump, Another sale missed because someone didn't want to ship APO.

 

[super_duper 10+ year member]

ship APO

 

[yen10]

Try a forwarding service. When I studied abroad, I used Shipito. Cheap and reliable.