gizmodo.com.au Want to buy that Barneys handbag, that fancy Saks perfume or those shorts from Nordstrom? Well pine no more — Australia Post has launched a service that lets you shop online in the States and have your purchases shuttled directly to your doorstep through the Aussie postal service’s delivery network.
AusPost’s ShopMate service is in a similar vein to Shipito, MyUS and ShipToMe, but rather than relying on international courier services like UPS and FedEx, ShopMate uses the United States Postal Service to get parcels to Aussie shores and then its own network of delivery centres and postal deliverers — including the excellent postal locker setup that lets you pick up your deliveries from a petrol station, convenience store or after-hours post office without waiting around at home all day.
Once you’ve created an account at ShopMate, you’re assigned a unique US postal address, to which you send the purchases that you make when shopping online at a US retailer — plenty of which offer free shipping on purchases over a certain value to their continental US customers. Once parcels arrive at your US address — actually an Australia Post-associated logistics warehouse — it’s catalogued, and then forwarded onto you in Australia within 5-8 days once you make a Customs declaration and pay the associated fees.
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Check it out - http://shopmate.auspost.com.au
interesting but could have been handy earlier, i was using shipito back when the Aussie $ was stronger but then something happened with my payments not being accepted probably because they were funded from a foreign credit card, now that the currency exchange is worse i look elsewhere