Avoiding extreme costs at post office?

Question

Tomorrow I'm sending my husband a care package to an APO AE box in Iraq. Anyone have any tips or any loopholes I can use to get the cost down a bit? It'll be a hefty sort of package... do the Flat Rate boxes work to Iraq with USPS?

Thank you!

First answerer: Thank you so much! The flat rate boxes will work very well for the sixty billion cookies I have to ship. lol!

And wow. 10 months, huh? At least you've only got another 5 to go! Mine left midway through last month. =)

Sawnee-I don't simply because we've not had to deal with deployment yet. He's been in since 2002, we've been married since late 2005... and he got extremely lucky not to be shipped overseas. I never had to send anything...and FRG around here is completely useless.

Answer 1

Yes ma'm I always use the flat rate boxes. As for any other ways, I don't know. But good question, I'll be checking out the other answers on this post.

PS: Lisa preach on girl, the FRG sucks here too. And keep baking those cookies, they love them. I swear my kitchen looks like a bakery half the time.

Answer 2

Yes the flat rate boxes do work , however they have raised the prices of the flat rate, plus they arent very big. I mail my husband a box every week, hes been in Iraq 10 months so far...so I know where you are coming from. My husband has been in the Army 14 years now and we have been married over 15 years...Everything that you send only goes as far as New York, then it is on its way through the military.. this is why you cant track packages..however you can have the packaged signed for when it arrives, but this is usually worthless because the mail clerk never has them sign for it.

Answer 3

US Postal rates apply to all mail going to Iraq... They stay with the USPS only until they reach the stateside APO or FPO, then the military mail services ship them overseas... My son was stationed on an airbase in Iraq, and got his packages within 10 days, usually... once it took just three days!!

Bottom line? Normal USPS rates apply when you're shipping to an APO/FPO... doesn't cost anything extra because it's ultimately going overseas...

Answer 4

send it Space A- SAM mail- they say it takes longer, but it works for me. Local post offices hate holding on to the package so they actually ship it like a regular first class package to Miami or New York. There it is combined on Military flights that fly out twice a day to Germany- then loaded again on military flight to war zone. You save about 10% on the package and just adds 1 maybe 2 days to the travel.

Answer 5

while you're in the U.S. What he's doing is sexual harassment. (btw some adult adult males have a being pregnant fetish so your creepy feeling IS justified). If HR isn't listening you would be able to desire to bypass as much as the subsequent one in the line of command. you would be unable to bypass to the police effectively with out attempting to bypass for the period of the right chain of command first. you may tell them you need to take it to the government if not something is executed. in the event that they provide you any greif you additionally can touch the cost on human rights and possibilities. sturdy success. you additionally can document a civil suite against him.

Answer 6

Yeppers, Flat Rates are the way to go. You can go to the website: www.usps.com and order some supplies and they'll bring them to you for free. :)

I sent TONS of packages every payday to my love while he was gone.
Be sure to read what you can and cannot send too. ;)

Answer 7

those flat rate boxes are a godsend. just make sure you fill out the customs form accurately and honestly.. but not TOO honestly.

Answer 8

if you are a military spouse then shiping from an APO address to another APO address is free. just go on post and mail it via MPS no cost at all. being that you are a military spouse you should know that by now.