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ESL Girl
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 Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 1:31 am Post subject: Shipping U.S. APO (Iraq) |
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| Does anyone know if we can ship to APO addresses in Iraq? I scoured the Korean Post site but couldn't find anything. Thanks. |
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Netz
Joined: 11 Oct 2004
Location: a parallel universe where people and places seem to be the exact opposite of "normal"
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 7:53 am Post subject: |
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| You should be able to, it's essentially a US address. |
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poet13
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Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, you can. I sent a brother a dart board last year. This year I am sending a brother plastic pink flamingoes for outside his hooch. |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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It's not essentially a US address. It is a US address. Here is the United States Postal Service's page with tips for military addressing.
You can see by the example addresses on that page that the unit and box number constitute the street address, APO or FPO are the city, and AA/AE/AP/etc. are the state. The numbers after the state are the ZIP or the ZIP+4 (depending on if there are five or nine numbers).
What gripes me is that even a number of companies in the US that cater to the military still haven't figured out this system although it's been in place in this form for approximately 30 years now. I was on active duty in the US Army when the change from the old APO/FPO system went into effect. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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I doubt there are that many "companies" that hasn't figured this out yet. After all, you did.  |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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I don't care what you doubt. There are quite a few of them. My guess is they just can't be bothered with updating their shipping and tracking software. A number of them don't even have the territories listed! I guess if you're living in Puerto Rico or Guam, they just can't be bothered taking your money. Oddly enough, the foreign sites I've been dealing with over the past few years do support the states, territories, and AP/etc. addressing.
It's an issue for me because my mailing address for my US bank happens to be my APO address. Those companies' websites can't process the billing address because of that. There is also the issue of sales tax. AP/etc. don't have state sales tax. That's a nice savings depending on the amount of stuff you're purchasing online. |
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Netz
Joined: 11 Oct 2004
Location: a parallel universe where people and places seem to be the exact opposite of "normal"
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 1:30 pm Post subject: |
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It's not essentially a US address. It is a US address. Here is the United States Postal Service's page with tips for military addressing.
You can see by the example addresses on that page that the unit and box number constitute the street address, APO or FPO are the city, and AA/AE/AP/etc. are the state. The numbers after the state are the ZIP or the ZIP+4 (depending on if there are five or nine numbers).
What gripes me is that even a number of companies in the US that cater to the military still haven't figured out this system although it's been in place in this form for approximately 30 years now. I was on active duty in the US Army when the change from the old APO/FPO system went into effect. |
This is why I said "essentially", becuase some shippers just don't "get it", and can not be forced to ship to an address they don't want to. Also, Iraq is not inside the US, so literally it isn't a US address, although technically it absolutely is. Some shippers are very clear that they will only ship to the lower 48 as well, and specifically state NO APO's. It's irritating, and possibly illegal, but most people don't have lawyers to get a $10 book shipped to them.
It's not percieved as a US address by some businesses, even though it is.
Pink falmingos? |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Netz wrote: |
| This is why I said "essentially", becuase some shippers just don't "get it", and can not be forced to ship to an address they don't want to. |
So, you're basing your decision on the act of a bunch of morons stuck in the past instead of the people actually establishing the addressing system? Wonderful.
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| Also, Iraq is not inside the US, so literally it isn't a US address, although technically it absolutely is. |
Literally, it is a US postal address. It's a US postal address for a military unit.
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| Some shippers are very clear that they will only ship to the lower 48 as well, and specifically state NO APO's. It's irritating, and possibly illegal, but most people don't have lawyers to get a $10 book shipped to them. |
Those aren't the people I have a gripe against. Shipping costs do vary for OCONUS destinations and there's no problem with recognizing that. My banking address happens to be an APO address. I don't need them to send me anything at that address, just to recognize the simple fact that it is a US address so I can enter my billing address and give them my money. And this is even for stuff I want to buy from them and have shipped to a CONUS address! It's not unknown to buy gifts for others, after all.
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It's not percieved as a US address by some businesses, even though it is.
Pink falmingos? |
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