Online Stores and Services ... Shipped Fast to APO FPO DPO Addresses
We've been shopping at Amazon since they first began offering books way back when - and have watched them slowly but surely expand into selling everything. And the great thing is that they are finally starting to open up a lot of inventory that previously did not ship overseas.
There are obviously many other quality online stores that ship APO FPO DPO - filling in the gaps where Amazon is unable to ship various items - so check those out, too.
Happy Shopping! ... and feel free to drop us a line about your favorite stores that ship fast.
| Amazon One-Stop-Shopping | Your Amazon Shopping Cart tells you if an item will ship to your default APO FPO or DPO address. You simply search for an item - and in just a few short clicks - Amazon's automated system allows or disallows the purchase based on your APO FPO or DPO address - cool, huh? |
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| Christmas Shopping Rules | Start buying your Christmas presents now to beat the rush. If you do this, you will see your Christmas packages on time. If you don't, well ..... Santa Claus, I mean Amazon, can only do so much during the holidays. |
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| How Store Owners Can Become APO FPO DPO-Friendly | If you own or operate an online store, and are not familiar with APO FPO DPO shopping, you basically have to decide if you can do a few extra things to attract our business. Your main competition is Amazon, so if you can arrange for Amazon Fulfillment, you've solved most of your problem. Most stores that don't ship to US military addresses overseas can't ship to APO FPO DPO addresses because they use UPS shipping service. Other similar site changes you can make include ensuring that your online shopping cart address menus allow shoppers to select APO AE, FPO AP, and so forth as City and State. Also that your telephone number menus allow a customer to add an international telephone number - which probably have many more digits than American numbers. Here’s a sample APO AE address: Bunny May
Unit 25555
Box 455 APO AE 09173
Here’s Bunny May’s telephone number in Germany:
011-49-9472-555-6666 Next: Examine full USPS Track and Confirm information for one of your shipments. Orders should be shipped by USPS Priority Mail on the same day they are received. It only takes a small number of days for the package to be flown overseas and placed on a mail truck to your customer's location. If you are not shipping as fast as possible (no drop shipments allowed) - your APO FPO DPO customers may look elsewhere to shop online - because your store is taking too long to send their stuff. Next next: Don't overcharge on shipping. Your customers know that it only takes one stamp to mail a letter from an overseas APO FPO DPO to the 48 contiguous United States. Which means that package shipping fees are also nearly exactly the same coming and going. Those are the details that cause you to lose sales. If a customer has to attempt to use “New York” as part of their address information - their package may not arrive. Bad for the customer - bad for your business. |
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| US Postal Service Track & Confirm | You can check an online store's shipping speed by scanning or typing in the "Delivery Confirmation" number - or other Accountable Mail number (Certified, Express, Registered, etc.) - in the "Track & Confirm" box at USPS.com. |
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