
Cheapest shipping method?
10/05/2018
"Does anyone have any wisdom to share on the cheapest shipping method to Zihuatanejo? I have a box that is about 18" square and weighs no more than 4 lbs. It's clothes for a friend's daughter. I looked quickly on FedEx last night and it gave me a quote of $130!!!!! Any other ideas, please? Thanks!"
Hola Sweet Susy
When I can't find a traveler coming down with some extras space as another person suggested, I resort to US Mail First Class International.
Recently I received one of those large floppy envelopes with 1 tee-shirt sent to me from New Jersey.
It had $12.25 postage applied to the envelope, and took 3 weeks to arrive here.
Price increases substantially if you choose International PRIORITY mail.
Also, using the US Mail avoids the 16% I.V.A. IF the shipment is UNDER a stipulated value, which although I am not sure what it is at the moment, it could be the equivalent to US$150.00
All merchandise items arriving by FedEx, UPS, DHL, etc., has the 16% tax levied, on whatever the declared value is, NO WAY to escape that.
As a side note - When using the Amazon USA platform, they have their service "Amazon Global" which is relatively swift, and their shipping charges beat other transportation methods.
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jaui
Complete thread:
- Cheapest shipping method? - SweetSusy, 2018-10-05, 08:56
- Cheapest shipping method? - Hunter-MX, 2018-10-05, 09:03
- Cheapest shipping method? - Malury, 2018-10-05, 09:22
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- Cheapest shipping method? - Gringo Viejo, 2018-10-05, 09:47
- Cheapest shipping method? - Malury, 2018-10-05, 09:22
- Cheapest shipping method? - moonbird1, 2018-10-05, 10:31
- Cheapest shipping method? - Malury, 2018-10-05, 15:18
- Cheapest shipping method? - moonbird1, 2018-10-06, 11:15
- Cheapest shipping method? - Malury, 2018-10-05, 15:18
- Cheapest shipping method? - Talley Ho, 2018-10-05, 12:52
- Cheapest shipping method? - SweetSusy, 2018-10-05, 16:38
- Cheapest shipping method? - jaui, 2018-10-05, 13:06
- Cheapest shipping method? - Malury, 2018-10-05, 15:13
- Cheapest shipping method? - Gringo Viejo, 2018-10-05, 16:21
- Cheapest shipping method? - SweetSusy, 2018-10-05, 16:39
- Cheapest shipping method? - Talley Ho, 2018-10-05, 16:44
- Cheapest shipping method? - Gringo Viejo, 2018-10-05, 17:01
- Cheapest shipping method? - jaui, 2018-10-05, 17:44
- Cheapest shipping method? - Talley Ho, 2018-10-05, 18:50
- Cheapest shipping method? - mexicoman, 2018-10-06, 13:29
- Cheapest shipping method? - hromero, 2018-10-06, 19:20
- Cheapest shipping method? - jaui, 2018-10-05, 17:44
- Cheapest shipping method? - mexicoman, 2018-10-06, 13:23
- Cheapest shipping method? - Gringo Viejo, 2018-10-05, 17:01
- Cheapest shipping method? - Talley Ho, 2018-10-05, 16:44
- Cheapest shipping method? - Hunter-MX, 2018-10-05, 09:03