EBay and Mail Delivery - What's Best? What's Reliable?

[lolex]

Hi,

My Mate's just settled in the outer suburbs of Chiang Mai... and I'll be following later.

I buy a lot of stuff from the internet. Mainly EBay, but also iHerb and other places.

I searched the Forum but didn't find a good answer to my question: What's Best annd What's Reliable for mail service for incoming deliveries.

I guess that options would include: Thai Postal Service to the home address, Thai Post Office Box, EMS Courier type services and I think that there are commercial organisations offerring some kind of PO Box arragement.

Your thoughts, experience and suggestions will be valued.

Thanks !

[BKKdreaming]

is the mail box at your house secure ? and what happens if the package is too big for the mail box ?

could you mail the small stuff to your house and the larger stuff to the PO box ?

[ATF]

If you are posting from the US use USPS Priority or Express. Send to your home address they will leave a collection slip for you to pick up at the Post Office.

EMS is available in some of the US and other Countries and is good. Never ship using a service without online tracking.

Unfortunately every package gets scrutinized now and full taxes are applied now even if you declare a low rate and declare as gift.

You cannot ship liquids without a major hassle also herbs would be a problem too. Things like that have to have a Thai Standards code explaining what it is.

The happy days of shopping overseas are over.

[BKKdreaming]

The happy days of shopping overseas are over.

Does the same thing happen with small packages from China you by on Alibaba etc ?

[seajae]

The postal services are the way to go, anything sent using courier services(dhl etc) charge custom fees at their own rates and on everything. I buy herbs etc from Australia(herbies, cant get what I want here) that come here fine as do most of the items I buy including ebay/alibaba, it can be a bit hit and miss I suppose but bigger items can cause problems