how do you enter FPO addresses into the fields when buying online?

Question

There's a field for name, street address, city, state, zip, and country.

My address is: (example)

Name
abc 12 HQ (Chaplain)
unit 12345
FPO-AP 12345-6789

Also, this raises the question that if a site doesn't specifically accommodate to APO/FPO addresses does it mean they wont ship them to those locations.

Answer 1

If the site ships items via the US Postal Service (USPS) you can often get around the lack of AP or AE on the online signup by putting CA as the state for packages being mailed to APO/FPO AP addresses and you can put NJ as the state for packages being mailed to APO/FPO AE addresses. APO or FPO is always the city name.

So in your example it would be:

Name: First Lastname
Address 1: abc 12 HQ (Chaplain)
Address 2: unit 12345
City: FPO
State: AP
Zip Code: 12345-6789

However, most online companies have exclusive bulk shipping contracts with UPS, FedEx and DHL in order to get the best rates. The exclusives shipping contract excludes shipping via the United States Post Office. USPS is the only method that can be used to send to a military APO and FPO address.

To get around this you get a US address from a company called APO Box and they will forward all your packages to your APO/FPO address via the USPS. APO Box http://www.apobox.com. APO is a company that will forward packages that are sent via FedEx™, UPS™, and DHL™ to military APO FPO addresses overseas via the US Post Office (USPS) for a 5 dollar fee per package. They solve the APO shipping and sing up problem by providing anyone with an APO or FPO address a unique US shipping address to ship any package to. You then use the US address as your address for any company that does not ship via the US Postal Service. APO Box will also take care of the customs paperwork and show online tracking.

Remember that APO/FPO addresses have different shipping restrictions than regular mail and are subject to customs paperwork. The shipping size of each package is determined by your APO/FPO address zip code. Go to the APO Box site at http://www.apobox.com/zip_restrictions.php to check restrictions on your specific APO zip code.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Fpo Online

Answer 4

Wow, thankyou! exactly what I was searching for. I looked for the answer on the internet but I couldn't find them.

Answer 5

Jason,

A lot of businesses, for whatever reason, will not ship APO/FPO.

You'll need to read their shipping policy.

Depending on what you're looking for, there's a lot of businesses that will be more than happy to do it.

Answer 6

I don't think anyone can truly tell you