{"id":4156,"date":"2008-06-17T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-17T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T07:10:00","slug":"amazon-cuts-shipping-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/4156-amazon-cuts-shipping-to-south-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cuts shipping to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shipping Amazon products to South Africa just became a whole lot more expensive. <\/p>\n<p>According to the most recent shipping guidelines on Amazon.com South Africa is now the only country in Africa not able to receive standard or expedited shipping. <\/p>\n<p>The only option now for South African residents is to receive the goods via priority courier shipping, which is prohibitively costly. The shipping costs on a DVD, for example, would amount to more than R400. <\/p>\n<p>Justin Drennan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wantitall.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wantitall.co.za<\/a>, a locally-based online retailer, says that &quot;widespread fraud and theft&quot; has forced Amazon.com to stop sending shipment to South Africa through the SA Post Office. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Things are a bit sketchy right now, however it seems that due to fraud they have removed the option for a &#8216;standard&#8217; shipping rate to South Africa, meaning you will need to ship with DHL priority services.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;SA is the only African country that cannot choose either of the cheaper options anymore, and the only other country that cannot choose the cheapest &#8216;standard&#8217; delivery is Nigeria,&quot; says Drennan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=123198\"><strong>Amazon shipping discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alleged fraud shuts down cheap shipping options<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}