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Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 00:03

Any US expats use a mail forwarding service they can recomend? We are selling our house here in the states and going fulltime in Dubai. In the past we've had our house sitter collect the mail and let us know if there was anything important but we won't have that option anymore. We don't get a lot of mail but there will be occassional statements regarding investments and bank accounts and want to get those to us in Dubai.

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Latest post on 14 February 2011 - 06:14

I'm getting signed up for the mail forwarding service but I have a question. Do you get the mail delievered to your home address in Dubai or to a PO Box? I figured since it's going to be delievered by DHL it could go to my home right?

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Latest post on 21 January 2011 - 22:59

3 friends sent us Xmas packages via USPS to my DH PO Box at work and it has been over 4 weeks and still no delivery. Do I have to pick up these boxes somewhere in customs? My family regularly sends me packages thru USPS (private version of Shop n Ship!). The driver who collects the mail from my DH's work PO Box gets a little slip of paper inserted into the work PO Box instructing him that a package has arrived and is waiting for collection from the Karama branch of Emirates Post. The bummer is that the longer the package sits in the Karama Post office, driver will have to pay "storage charges" before he can collect the package.

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Latest post on 20 January 2011 - 02:00

SunDevil, are you from Arizona?? I have a questions also! 3 friends sent us Xmas packages via USPS to my DH PO Box at work and it has been over 4 weeks and still no delivery. Do I have to pick up these boxes somewhere in customs? edited by jules22 on 19/01/2011 Yes I am, born and raised! I don't know about the customs question, sorry. I've shipped things back and forth using DHL and never had to pick them up from customs. DHL always brought it to DH's work.

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Latest post on 20 January 2011 - 00:05

I use iwww.shipito.com if ordering from USA. They forward letters as well.

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Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 21:35

Jules we are almost paperless too but we have one investment company that holds several of our investment accounts that refuses to go totally paperless. They insist there is a federal law saying that we can't go totally paperless b/c they need at least two ways to send us legal notifications, which I think is a bunch of baloney. rosse10, thank you, that's really affordable!

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Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 20:07

Hi sorry for the delay I think we have a yearly subscription; may be $150. And yes I have done online shopping and used this address to receive my goods and forward them to me in UAE. No problems. Good company.

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Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 11:43

We went paperless on all of our housing, banking and investment accounts so now just get email statements for everything. We changed our address to go to my mother and she scans and send electronically anything else which has been 1 item in 5 months.

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EW NEWBIE

Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 09:55

I use usabox.com. They are based in Florida, and provide a Miami address for your mail. They have a number of payment plans depending on your preferences. What I like is that they provide a photo of each piece of mail so you can discard junk or other mail you are not interested in receiving. I usually wait until the mail reaches 3 to 4 pounds before shipping it here. You can have online shopping shipped to your usabox address. Typically, they will require that you provide a short description of the contents and value for customs purposes. In fact, you may opt to have them repack your purchases if it can reduce the weight/size/cost of your shipment. Additionally, once you arrive in Dubai, you may also want to open an Aramex Shop and Ship account, which is very good for online shopping and shipping at very reasonable rates. PS It's a good idea to keep a US address if you intend to maintain your US banking accounts.

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Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 06:43

Thank you Rosse10, that's one of the companies I was looking at. Do you mind me asking what you typically pay per month? We might end up shipping about 10 letters total a month to Dubai, it won't be much. Also, can you shop online and have it sent to you in Dubai?

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Latest post on 19 January 2011 - 02:19

http://www.usglobalmail.com/ We have been using them for about 2 years now without any problems.

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