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The boom in ecommerce has led to the emergence of online shopping in a big way with the largest share of e-commerce revenue being generated by retail shopping websites. During 2012, these sites earned $186.2 billion dollars as revenue.
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The boom in ecommerce has led to the emergence of online shopping in a big way with the largest share of e-commerce revenue being generated by retail shopping websites. During 2012, these sites earned $186.2 billion dollars as revenue. The 2012 e-commerce market forecast project retail revenue in the United States reaching $361.9 billion by 2016. It is estimated that about 78% of shoppers will use the internet to purchase and research products. Forrester Research report states that the United States online retail industry will be worth $279 billion by 2015. The online shopping extravaganza becomes a stressful exercise when placing order for goods from outside the borders of the buyers’ country and the buyer needs to worry about the prohibitive shipping costs when ordering from United States and other points abroad. In addition, some online stores in United States do not provide international shipping services. These online stores or shops only forward the shipping packages to U.S. based shipping addresses. Then the remedy lies with those firms that provide parcel-forwarding services. The package or parcel forwarding service provider or firms act as an intermediary between the online shopping websites and the buyer by providing the latter with a U.S. mail forwarding address and then collect the buyers or their clients’ mail and packages on their behalf. These service providers would then send the packages to the buyers’ actual address or destination outside United States. The Merits ofPackage Forwarding Services for Online Shoppers
By utilizing the services of the service providers, the final buyer saves costs on shipping that is normally three times when the same shipment or package is delivered within the U.S. Some online stores such as Amazaon.com provide U.S. deliveries free. The parcel forwarding serviceprovider has the expertise to deal with the extra charges and fees for delivering the package through international shipping services. The buyer just needs to pay for the value of the merchandize purchased. • The buyer can use his/her credit or debit card by adding the U.S. address to their credit card provided by the parcel forwarding company thereby allowing the buyer to make purchases at online stores in the United States. The buyer also gets instant access for many products being sold or auctioned by online shopping sites such eBay as majority of sellers ship within U.S only. Some of the popular service providers as an added benefit of using their services also have buying plans in which they assist the buyers in making online purchases. For online shoppers the following merits or benefits in brief are: • Saving of packing costs through package consolidation, • International shipping costs gets cheaper, • Making buying from U.S. online stores becomes much easier and faster.
Like any other services, a buyer desirous of hiring the services of mail forwarding service provider must look for its reliability, record of accomplishment of customer satisfaction. It is advisable to choose that service provider who is in this business for over a long time. One quick way to evaluate these service providers or companies is to check for consumer complaints and how these complaints are handled. Looking for companies that provide quick response and excellent customer service is the best bet. Some of these service providers at work and are quite popular are shipitto.com, shipville.com, usabox.com, shipusatoday.com, bongous.com etc.
