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Best Parcel Forwarding Services for Expats & Overseas Shoppers

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What if you could shop from any international online store and ship package to your home address? This is where mail, parcel and package forwarding services step in. 

Using these parcel forwarding services, online shoppers get access to the best shipping discounts, variety of goods and access to the best deals from retailer that people living in that country enjoy.

Package Shipping restrictions of Amazon, Best Buy, eBay and Nike etc. are not a problem anymore for customers!

Which parcel forwarder should customers use for delivery?

The Best Package Forwarding Services Around the World

Best Parcel Forwarding Services

Stackry

stackry parcel forwarding services

Stackry is a great US parcel forwarding service. They provide a tax-free US address in Nashua with free signup or no membership fee! You get 45 days of free storage in their warehouse.

Forwarding Service: Package consolidation, Repackaging, info request, pictures, personal shopper and hazmat processing (flammable liquids, batteries, etc), Insurance up to $100, mobile app, shopping app, rewards program and VIP program

Payment Methods: Stackry Credit, PayPal , Credit Card, Bitcoin, Wire Transfer: $25/transfer

International Shipping Option: DHL, FedEx, Aramex, USPS, Global Mail

Customer Support: Email, Phone, Contact Form

Stackry Testing Results:

Great for beginners testing waters of US international shipping and online shopping. Stackry offers a no-hassle, limited-option parcel forwarding service. They also have the ability to ship dangerous goods at a reasonable fee. They have special shipping discounts, great customer service, a bit pricey shipping rates, and a VIP Program.

FishisFast

fishisfast

Fishisfast offers 180 days free storage and a tax-free US address in Delaware . There is no sign-up, no monthly fee and no memberships. You can use Fishisfast for your all US shopping needs (unless it’s a Dangerous Goods item).

Parcel Forwarding Service: 24/7 warehouse operations, free package consolidation, free repackaging, express processing and insurance. Other service are return handling, testing products, bubble wrapping, plastic wrapping of box and double walled boxes, personal shopper etc.

Payment Methods: Credit Cards, PayPal , Cash Back

International Shipping Option: FedEx, USPS, Boxberry, Aramex

Customer Support: Live chat, Email

FishisFast Testing Results:

Fishisfast is a very reliable package forwarder for customers everywhere. If you are new to international shopping from the US, then FishisFast is a good choice for delivery. Their 24×7 warehouse operations are super useful and can be selected as an alternate to Stackry listed above.

Vyking Ship

VykingShip parcel forwarding service

Vyking Ship is a great package forwarding company with three membership tiers: Basic (free, 60 days storage), Gold ($50/year, 90 days storage), and Platinum ($100/year, 150 days storage). Every tier gives you a free US address and free incoming packages. The difference is how long your packages sit in storage and how much you pay to combine them.

Forwarding Service: Free mail and package receiving, invoice & price tag removals, item photos, declare customs, repack, package consolidation, add security tape, expedited processing, custom requests, personal shopper etc.

Payment Methods: PayPal, Credit Cards, Western Union, Bank Wire Transfers

International Shipping Service: USPS, DHL, FedEx

Customer Support: Live Chat, Email, Phone

Partnered with US Unlocked

Vyking Ship Testing Results:

Testing Vyking Ship multiple times shows their parcel forwarding service is consistent and amazing as always. Their warehouse location gives advantage of Minnesota’s no tax policy on clothing item (seller needs to be out of state though). Their shipping calculator very good! Choose Basic if you ship quickly and don’t need long storage. Choose Gold or Platinum if you shop during sales and need more time to consolidate, the paid tiers also lower your per-package combination fee from $2.50 down to $2.00 or $1.50. Also choose Vyking Ship if you require special requests during consolidation or need special edition / collectors’ items delivery abroad or mail forwarding.

Forward2Me

Forward2me

Forward2Me is a UK parcel forwarding company but gives addresses in the Germany, Turkey & Japan with zero membership fee.

Forwarding Service: Tax Free UK Address, 30 days free storage, dangerous goods, personal shopper, eBay collection service.

Payment Methods Credit Cards, PayPal , Bank Transfer, Bitcoin

International Shipping Option: DHL, FedEx, DPD, TNT, Royal Mail, UPS, Parcel Force.

Customer Support: Phone, Email and Contact Form

Forward2Me Testing Results:

Our first tested UK parcel forwarding service, Forward2Me is ideal for one signup to get 4 free addresses. We think their packaging and forwarding services are good value for money. They also offer a tax free UK address in Guernsey

Ship7

Ship7 by Youparcel

Ship7 is the only US parcel forwarding service in this list to give addresses in the USA, UK and Turkey for free! 15 days free storage, extendable to 30 days for a small fee.

Forwarding Service: 24/7 open warehouse, free consolidation, return handling, repackaging, item photos, special requests, personal shopper, DDP, etc.

Payment Methods Credit Cards, Debit Cards, PayPal .

International Shipping Option: DHL, FedEx, Aramex, UPS, USPS

Customer Support: 24/7 Live Chat, Email

Ship7 Testing Results

If you are interested in getting free addresses in the USA, UK & Turkey and want to deal with one parcel forwarder, Ship7 should be your pick for delivery! Their US shipping address is tax free which helps in saving money. Their additional service and shipping costs are reasonable. And they also offer DDP for select regions!

Planet Express

planet express

Planet Express gives a free US forwarding address. They also UK shipping address. If you pay $5 you can get their tax-free US address in Oregon. Planet Express offers two plans; Free & Paid. Free plan of planet express doesn’t include consolidation and hence can only hold 1 package. Paid plan on the other hand is for $50/Year or $10/M. Both plans offer free storage days but the number of days are limited to 10 for Free plan and 60 days for Paid plan (90 days if you choose their Florida warehouse).

Forwarding Service: Free repackaging, 2 free pictures on arrival of item. Free receiving of mail, magazines and packages! Super cheap shipping, personal shopper too!

Payment Methods PayPal , Amazon Pay, Wire Transfers, BitPay

International Shipping Option: USPS, DHL, FedEx, Aramex

Customer Support: Live Chat & Email

Planet Express is also Partnered with US Unlocked

Planet Express Testing Results:

Cheapest shipping cost for delivery ever! That’s Planet Express for you. No fuss, no muss and if you keep things simple with them, you’ll love them and come back to them. 

Very recently, OPAS became part of PlanetExpress

MyUS

MYUS

MyUS is one of the oldest and most reliable mail and US parcel forwarding company. They give a Tax-Free US Address in Florida (it’s a unique code issued to them) and a UK address as well. They have free and paid plans both and free trials too!

Forwarding Service: Free Consolidation & Repackaging, personal shopper, True Price, customs declaration, mobile app, shopping app,

Payment Methods Credit Cards, PayPal , Check/Money Order, Wire Transfer

International Shipping Option: DHL, FedEx, UPS, USPS

Customer Support: 24/7 Live Chat, Email, Call back service

MyUS Testing Results:

Tested a few years ago, MyUS now gives a UK address as well. Choose, if you are looking for a seamless online shopping experience with parcel forwarding service in the USA and UK, and need special handling of goods. Also choose if you are looking for delivery of restricted items such as non-prescription medicines, Li-on batteries and some dangerous goods. If you are a business and ship in bulk, MyUS gives special discounts under a dedicated account for businesses. MyUS has a true-price feature which is like a shipping calculator but spot on.

Shipito

Shipito

Shipito gives a tax-free US address in Oregon, Austria (EU), California. They have two plans, free and paid. With the free plan you get addresses in two warehouses: Austria and California along with shipping discounts. If you wish to consolidate packages or save on any US taxes then it’s a good idea to upgrade to the paid plan ($10/pm or $60/yr) for massive savings.

Forwarding Service: Up to 90 Days Free Storage, free repackaging, free pictures of incoming packages, personal shopper, mailing service, mobile apps, rewards program etc.

Payment Methods Credit Cards, PayPal , Wire Transfer, BitCoin.

International Shipping Option: DHL, FedEx, USPS, TNT, DPD, Boxberry, Austria Post, Airmail, Australia Post, Aramex, GLS

Customer Support: Live chat, Email, Phone and Contact Form

Partnered with US Unlocked

Shipito Testing Results:

If you frequently ship from both the US and Europe, then Shipito free account gives you access to both. Their online account management system is extremely good and gives a lot of options when it comes to package consolidation, online shopping and international shipping options.

UK PostBox

UKpostbox

UK PostBox offers a mail forwarding service. They give PO Box locations and some street addresses in Poole, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham and Belfast. They have paid plans only.

They offer a free PO Box address in Dorset or London where you only pay for mail you receive, plus paid street addresses across other UK locations.

Mail Forwarding Service: Royal Mail redirection, online shopping and shipping, returns, fulfilment and drop shipping, Google Adsense, directors service address, sole trader address, business trading address, registered office address and personal address.

Payment Methods Debit and Credit Cards, PayPal , Bank Transfer.

International Shipping Option: USPS, Royal Mail, DHL, Parcel Force

Customer Support: Email, Call back request, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger Support

Yollando

yollando

With a virtual address in Turkey, Yollando has two plans; free and paid. Free plan allows 15 days off free storage while paid membership 60 days.

Forwarding Service: Free Consolidation, free repackaging, HD images, return processing, buy for me service, Yollando Shop

Payment Methods Credit Card, Bank Transfer, Western Union, GiroPay, TransferWise, iDeal, eps-Überweisung.

International Shipping Option: DHL, UPS, TNT, Skynet, FedEx, CDEK and several agencies

Customer Support: Email and Phone call

Shop & Ship

shop and ship cross-border shipping company

Shop & Ship is powered by Aramex. They have a sign-up fee of $45 but in return they give 30 international parcel forwarding addresses all over the world! Unfortunately, Shop & Ship do not send parcels everywhere; only 80 countries.

There is no free storage because there is NO consolidation service. They ship items as they arrive. They give international addresses in Australia, Canada, China, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, UK, and USA.

Parcel Forwarding Service: They only have paid plans, and we suggest you read up on the S&S Basic and S&S Flex plans.

Payment Methods Credit & Debit Cards

International Shipping Option is Aramex only

Customer Support: Webform, Email, Phone Number

There is a 25% discount for S&S Select service that essentially allows you to ship some restricted items such as perfumes, nail polishes, aerosols, hair growth products etc.

TipTrans

Tiptrans

TipTrans offers parcel forwarding service addresses in China, Hong Kong, Czech Republic, Germany and UK . They have three types of memberships; Standard, Premium & Business Premium. All allow you to get addresses in all five locations, but the main difference between these memberships is the price for consolidation, shipping, and assisted purchase.

Parcel Forwarding Service: Personal and business use, repackaging, pictures, parcel inspection, special requests and express checkout.

Payment Methods: PayPal , Credit Cards, Bitcoins, Western Union and bank wire

International Shipping Options: China Post, DHL, Hong Kong post, TNT, UPS, EMS, Aramex and many more.

Customer Support: Email, Phone Number, Live Chat & Webform

Honourable Mentions:

There are a plethora of freight forwarding companies which ship multiple packages to customer base all over the world. We’ll name drop some of them here: AUSFF, MyGermany, Parcel Bound, ForwardVia , ReShip. All these have excellent customer service, they are either give a US address, a UK address or Australia address. Their delivery of shipments is via courier and shipper. and many more.

Best Cross-Border Shipping Companies

Everything above this point is parcel forwarding: you get one warehouse address, you shop, your stuff lands there, they ship it to you. Cross-border shipping (some people write it cross-border shipping, others drop the hyphen entirely, both refer to the same thing) is a different animal, and if you have been searching for cross border shipping companies specifically, it is worth understanding what actually sets the two apart before you pick a service.

What Is Cross Border Shipping, Really?

Cross-border shipping means moving a shipment across an international border from an origin country to a destination country, with customs clearance handled somewhere along the way. That is the whole definition. A single parcel forwarder gives you one address in one country. A true cross border shipping company runs an actual network, often several international addresses, a carrier relationship in each region, and a system for pushing shipments through customs without you doing the paperwork yourself.

Think of it this way: forwarding is built for one shopper buying from one country. Cross border logistics is built for shipments moving at scale, in both directions, with customs compliance baked into the process rather than bolted on.

How Customs Clearance Actually Works

This is the part most shoppers never think about until a shipment gets stuck. Every cross border shipment has to clear customs in the destination country before it reaches you, and that process runs through customs authorities who check your customs documentation, assess customs duties, and, depending on the country, may pull your shipment for manual inspection.

A few terms worth knowing before you compare cross border shipping companies:

Delivery Duty Paid (DDP) means the shipper covers customs duties and taxes upfront, so your package clears the border without you paying anything extra on delivery. Delivery Duty Unpaid (DDU) means the opposite: duties and taxes get billed to you when the shipment arrives, sometimes with a courier handling fee stacked on top. Ship7, reviewed above, is one of the few services on this page that offers DDP for select regions, which is worth knowing if surprise customs bills are what pushed you to start researching cross border shipping in the first place.

A licensed customs broker is a professional (or company) authorized to handle customs clearance on your behalf, filing the paperwork and dealing directly with border protection so a shipment does not sit stuck at the international border for weeks. Not every cross border shipping company employs one directly, some just partner with a broker per region, which is fine, but worth confirming if your destination country is known for customs delays.

Customs regulations and customs procedures vary enormously by destination country. What clears instantly into the UK might sit flagged for days heading into a country with stricter import rules. This is exactly why a real cross border logistics partner, not just a US-only forwarder, matters if you are shipping somewhere with a reputation for border delays, since good logistics planning upfront avoids most of that.

Cross Border Shipping vs Freight Forwarding vs Parcel Forwarding

These three terms get used interchangeably online, and they should not be.

Parcel forwarding, which covers most of what is reviewed above, is built for individual shoppers: one address, one warehouse, your packages consolidated and shipped to you as a private customer.

A freight forwarder operates at a different scale entirely, arranging transportation for larger shipments, often for businesses, coordinating between multiple transportation modes (ocean freight, air freight, and ground) and managing the supply chain from origin to destination country. Freight forwarding and freight logistics are built around volume and international trade relationships, not single packages, which is why a freight forwarder quote looks completely different from a parcel forwarder’s pricing page. If you are a business shipping smaller shipments regularly rather than a single package occasionally, a freight forwarder is closer to what you actually need than a consumer parcel forwarder, and your supply chain will run more predictably for it.

International shipping as a broader category covers all of this: parcel forwarding, cross border shipping, and freight forwarding are three different tools for moving goods internationally, each suited to a different volume and use case. Confusing them is the single biggest reason people end up overpaying, either paying freight-level prices for a single parcel, or trying to run business-scale international shipments through a consumer parcel forwarder never built for it.

Cross border shipping sits between the two. It is less about warehousing and more about the shipping and customs logistics infrastructure needed to get a shipment across an international border reliably, whether that shipment is a single parcel or a pallet of cross border freight.

Which of Our Reviewed Services Actually Handle Cross Border Shipping

Of everything reviewed above, Shop & Ship is the clearest cross border shipping example on this page. It is powered by Aramex, a global carrier with its own cross border operations rather than a single-warehouse forwarding model, and it gives you international addresses across 30 countries rather than one. Because Aramex functions as both carrier and cross border logistics partner, Shop & Ship skips the forwarding middleman entirely, your shipment moves through Aramex’s own network from destination country back to you.

TipTrans is a partial fit. It gives you addresses across five countries under one membership, which pushes it closer to cross border shipping than a single-address forwarder, though it still relies on external carriers (China Post, DHL, UPS, and others) for the actual international shipping leg rather than running its own network the way Aramex does.

Everything else on this page, Stackry, FishisFast, Vyking Ship, Forward2Me, Ship7, Planet Express, MyUS, Shipito, UK PostBox, and Yollando, is built around a single address and warehouse, which makes them parcel forwarders first, not international shipping or logistics companies in the fuller sense. That is not a knock on any of them, forwarding is the right tool for an individual shopper buying from one country. It is just a different category from true cross border shipping.

Choosing Between a Forwarder and a Cross Border Shipping Company

If you are a private shopper buying the occasional item from a US or UK retailer, a standard parcel forwarder from the list above will cover you, and it is almost always cheaper than a dedicated cross border logistics setup built for volume.

If you are running an online business, dealing with international customers regularly, or need to account for a trade agreement between your country and your supplier’s country as part of your cross border trade, a proper cross border shipping company or freight forwarder becomes worth the extra cost. You get customs compliance handled at scale by people who understand logistics for your specific lane, fewer surprise customs delays, and a shipper who already understands the customs procedures for your specific trade lane rather than figuring the logistics out shipment by shipment.

Either way, the shipping costs quoted upfront rarely tell the whole story. Ask any cross border shipping company directly whether their rate includes customs clearance and customs duties, or whether that gets billed separately once your shipment crosses the international border. That one question saves more headaches than any comparison table ever will.

A last practical note: cross border shipments do not always move smoothly even with a good provider. Border crossing delays happen, customs paperwork gets flagged for random inspection, and international shipments occasionally sit longer than quoted, especially around holidays or when a destination country updates its import rules mid-shipment. None of that means the cross border shipping process is broken, it is just the reality of moving anything across an international border. A provider with real cross border operations experience and an established trade agreement network will get you through those delays faster than one improvising it region by region.

Package Forwarding Service – How It Works

  1. Sign Up with a forwarding company and get your address.
  2. Shop online on your favourite retailer like Nike, Forever21 , Adidas, Rayban, Amazon, eBay, and several more.
  3. Deliver your merch to your new address at shipping company and forward everything to your local address anywhere in the world.
  4. Receive your shopping in a matter of days!

Are you’re wondering how to choose the right forwarding company? ← Here is a great link that tells you, our international shoppers how to pick the perfect company for your online shopping needs!

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How to Pay Retailer that don’t accept your cards?

Let me guess, you cannot pay to these online shopping retailers via your card? Payments can be tricky, but if you read these guides on how to get a Virtual Card , pay via digital cards or use alternate payment methods , we’ve got you covered.

Have you used any other parcel forwarding service that you are happy with? Mention the name below in comments & your experience with them, and after vetting them myself, I’ll add it to this list [in the next update].

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Zahra

Co Founder of Parcel Forward, Zahra has over 16 years of content development & editorial experience. She is a novelist & writes for businesses & digital platforms.

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  1. Arek

    There is a lot of good companies but Send2Hub.com is a UK-based parcel forwarding service that lets international shoppers buy from UK stores and have their items shipped worldwide. It offers a free UK address, parcel consolidation, competitive shipping rates, and up to 60 days of free storage—making cross-border shopping easy and affordable.

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