PostBox-Courier.com how to

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vinodh

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I recently made use of the service provide by PostBox-Courier.com and was very impressed. For those people that don't know, they are a parcel forwarding service that specialises in shipping to South Africa. Since a lot of people have asked questions about this service, I decided to write a short tutorial on how to use their service:

1. Go to postbox-courier.com and register.

2. Find the item you want to buy online e.g. Amazon.com and get information on its weight and approximate dimensions. Then go here and enter in the weight and approximate dimensions of your parcel. Make sure to select the country you are buying from to get the currency right. Click "get quote". If you are happy with the price,

3. Login to posbox-courier.com and click on "parcel manager" and then click on "book parcel". Fill in all the details and click "book this parcel" A parcel ID number will then be created that you will need later.

4. Go to the website that you wish to buy your item from. Use the relevant postbox-courier.com receiving depot address for the country you are buying from. eg. if you are making a purchase from the Amazon USA, use their New York address. All the receiving depot's addresses are here.

5. When you fill in your name for the shipping address, fill it in with your parcel ID like so: John123456 Smith.
This will allow PostBox Courier to immediately know who's parcel it is.

Here's a link to track your parcel via Seabourne Express. Click on "Track a Shipment" and enter your parcel ID in the Waybill# field:
http://seabourne.co.za/

6. Once your item has been bought and shipped from the store (Amazon), all you have to do is wait for confirmation that it has been received at PostBox Courier. They will then mail you to confirm the shipping costs and you can make payment via PayPal or credit card. My parcel was received by them on Wednesday afternoon and I had it in my hands that Friday. The item was 0.2 Kg and it cost $30 to have it sent from the USA to my door. I did not pay any import duties probably because the item cost less than R500. If there are import duties involved, then you must make payment directly to PostBox Courier.

Their customer support email is here. I did mail them a couple of times and they replied within minutes.
 
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Nice info vinodh - already registered with them and am buying my first item from the UK next week, and this info will certainly help! ;)
 
Nice post indeed - other thread had information being belted about rather haphazardly.

This is clear as day - shot! :)
 
I've just started using them, and so far the service has been excellent.
 
I've just used them and will post again once my goodies arrive. It looks like I saved $20 on postage by ordering on Amazon and shipping via Post Office courier instead of ordering directly from the vendor of the goods... not to mention that Amazon was $30 cheaper on the goods... all in all a saving of hopefully $50.

Thanks ponder for pointing this thread out and thanks Vinodh for starting it :)
 
Anyone know if Postbox-Courier will collate an order for you? In other words, combine two different deliveries into one box to save shopping costs.

Just registered. Thanks.
 
No idea if they will collate, email them and ask. vinodh says in the first post, that they reply quickly.

I am also using them for the first time, for something from the US, according to the quote, should save me more than 50% on shipping. The item is valued at over $500, so will see how the duties and so forth work.

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Yep thanks for the info, was useful.
Just noticed I minor difference between what you say and the web-site says:
You say John_123456 Smith
Whereas they say John123456 Smith

Or did I misread?

I've ordered a Nexus 10 from the US Playstore and I'll be relying on PostBox-Courier to ship it here.

Will post back with my success/failure and taxes and so forth.

Can say the follow thus far tho:
I paid $399 for the Nexus 10 16GB and then had to pay New York tax which was around 9% or something.

So if you do order and ship to their US address, you are probably going to be paying US tax :(
 
I'm excited now... I can order my H20 water filters from the US at a fraction of the local cost... including postage, I can get 3 at the local price of 1.
 
AfricanTech said:
Awesome how to!

Shipping at realistic prices

Prsume this will work for ebay items as well
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Just check with the seller on Ebay, some of them will only ship to your confirmed Paypal address, or the billing address associated with your CC, if you pay that way. That said, I bought a game DVD at the beginning of December, and the seller stated much the same, but I used another address, and it was shipped without issue.

B
 
Those confirmed addresses don't usually mean anything. I ignore it all the time and I've never had issues :p
 
Gnome said:
Yep thanks for the info, was useful.
Just noticed I minor difference between what you say and the web-site says:
You say John_123456 Smith
Whereas they say John123456 Smith

Or did I misread?

I've ordered a Nexus 10 from the US Playstore and I'll be relying on PostBox-Courier to ship it here.

Will post back with my success/failure and taxes and so forth.

Can say the follow thus far tho:
I paid $399 for the Nexus 10 16GB and then had to pay New York tax which was around 9% or something.

So if you do order and ship to their US address, you are probably going to be paying US tax :(
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You are quite right about the parcel ID. I edited the first post accordingly.

With regards to your comment about New York tax, I'm not sure how that works. I bought something and used their New York recieving depot and did not pay tax. Maybe if you actually buy it in New York, then you pay tax.
 
vinodh said:
You are quite right about the parcel ID. I edited the first post accordingly.

With regards to your comment about New York tax, I'm not sure how that works. I bought something and used their New York recieving depot and did not pay tax. Maybe if you actually buy it in New York, then you pay tax.
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Cool ;)

Got conformation email from US Playstore, my order has shipped to the depot.

Will hopefully soon reach them :)
 
Gnome said:
Cool ;)

Got conformation email from US Playstore, my order has shipped to the depot.

Will hopefully soon reach them :)
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How you get that right to order from the American store?
 
Oki, I though on all of googles vast knowledge they would be able to figure out where you are from even with DNS spoofing.
 
calypso said:
Oki, I though on all of googles vast knowledge they would be able to figure out where you are from even with DNS spoofing.
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I wouldn't call it spoofing per se. UnoTelly obviously identifies IP checking IPs. Whenever the computer does a DNS lookup with the UnoTelly DNS for a website with IP checking, it returns an UnoTelly IP in the country of choice which will forward you packets to the IP you requested.

It is more like insecure selective proxying.
 
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