Shipping from the USA with DHL: After your online shopping

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Monday February 13, 2012 at 17:33:15:

I've already made a lot of posts about shopping online on USA stores right from Nigeria as long as you have the internet and a credit card. The normal way is after making purchases and then select a shipping method and the best so far as I can tell you is DHL. They offer fast and efficient shipping to Nigeria from with minimum cost. This is especially useful for shipping light items that can be sent via cargo on an airline. If you are shipping large items like cars and heavy equipment, the more affordable way to do it is by water shipping.

Most USA online stores don't offer direct shipping to Nigeria
So what's the solution? You just need to get a us shipping address to receive it and then re-ship or re-route it to Nigeria. This service is legal and it's called Mail Forwarding.

There are many services that offer Mail forwarding from the USA to most parts of the world, including Nigeria so with a myUS address, you can get amlost anything you want from stores like Amazon.com. Toshiba.com, Barnes and Noble, Kennethcole, SeanJohn and so on.

Certain items and directly shippable to Nigeria. Stores like Amazon.com offer direct shipping of stuff like Books and DVDs to Nigeria so if you want to take advantage of their products, you can do so even with a Nigerian address and bank issued credit card.

Which credit card is suitable for online shopping from Nigeria?
Practically anyone but's it's good to use one that allows you to have a good track of your cost, billing as well as global acceptance. Two cars which I mostly use for online shopping that are regularly efficient are Intercontinental bank's prepaid Visa card and Zenith bank's Buxd card(Prepaid). They are both visa cards that allow you to shop from a lot of sites.

So how do you ship from the USA to Nigeria via DHL?
Quite simple really:
- Create an account with the US online store eg. An amazon.com account
- Create a mail forwarding account. Costs about $60/yer. eg with myUS.com
- Shop online from various US stores, take advantage of deals and shipping discounts and use your US address as the shipping address
- Consolidate your items to minimize your shipping costs with your account
- Decide on when to ship your items to Nigeria
- Your credit card will be billed with the shipping cost

What are the costs exactly?
Well here they are assuming you are using a mail forwarding account
- Listed price of item on us store
- Shipping to your US address
- Holding account with your Mail forwarding account - about $10 to $60
- Final shipping cost. About $45 per kg

How much does DHL shipping cost?
Well for the least cost I've got for about 2 lb is $45 and for about 3 lbs is $61 and is mostly depends on the weight and value of what you are shipping. You can minimize your costs by buying a lot of things in bulk that don't have much weight, estimate it with your mail forwarding account, before finally shipping it. It doesn't make economic sense if you are shipping just 0.01kg and still pay a flat fee of $45. So there's a flat fee for every shipment so ship efficiently.

Comments:
Re: Shipping from the USA with DHL: After your online shopping Posted by Parcel Forwarding on Monday June 25, 2012 at 22:41:30:

Thanks for giving different type of details of your mail services and differentiating with others, I hope it will surely help viewer to know about you and boom your business.

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Re: Shipping from the USA with DHL: After your online shopping Posted by Michael on Sunday November 23, 2014 at 16:23:57:

Thank you sir for your idea, in fact it's an eye opener, Having bought the item on Amazon and sent it to myus address, I just want to ask, about shipping price, am I going to pay separately for myus.com and DHL/FedEx? Is it the same price myus address will charge that will work for DHL /FedEx? Do DHL/FedEx collet money again at the point of collection of the item by the time it gets to Nigeria? Thank you.

Re: Shipping from the USA with DHL: After your online shopping Posted by Felix Okoli on Sunday November 23, 2014 at 16:23:57:

Apart from the purchase price you paid at Amazon, you are also going to pay for the international shipping costs to MyUS. They will do the shipping to you using DHL. You don't have to pay any additional money to DHL/Fedex for the international shipping. If htey are any other fees you are to pay to DHL, it may just be the Custom duties(if any), that may be charge on your item. If it's just small items, it may be waived for you but if it's worth much, expect to pay a commission as custom duty to DHL's/Fedex's account.