How to ship commodities from China to USA and Canada?

There are many methods to ship goods from China to USA and Canada.

If your goods is small, weight is less than 2KG and you don't have requirement on arrived time. You can choose Hong Kong Post (HK POST). HK Post is almost the best shipping method from China to all over the world for small package. The estimated arrived time is around 10 days. The shipping cost is also cheap.

If the weight of your goods is more than 2KG and less than 60KG, international express service is the best way. UPS, Fedex and DHL are the biggest express service company in the world. All of them are the best choice to ship to USA and Canada. You just need to compare their shipping cost. It takes around 3 days
from China to USA and Cannada. Shipping by DHL, UPS or Fedex is the best choice for electronic products, such as tablet pc, mobile phone, LCD, accessories and batteries, because electroinc products is more valuable and shipping fast is required for electronic products. By the way, generally, custom clearance is easy if send by express service company from China to USA and Canada. If you want to know how express service calculate the shipping cost, you can read my another article.

If the weight is more than 60KG and less than 5 cubic meter, you can send your goods by air freight -- airport to airport. If your goods is larger than 5 cubic meter, you have to send by ship -- harbor to harbor. If send by air freight or sea freight, you have to pick up the goods on the port and prepare custom clearance documents.

CarryGo is a freight forwarder in Guangzhou, China. Since 2000, CarryGo help customers shipping all kinds of products from China to all over the world. CarryGo does well in international express service for electronic products. 

UPS Joins FedEx in Planning Delivery Service on Aug. 29 as Damage Permits

United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) and FedEx Corp. (FDX), the biggest package-delivery companies, said they intend to resume normal operations tomorrow as damage from Tropical Storm Irene permits.

“Our intent is to dispatch Monday everywhere we’re allowed,” Norman Black, a spokesman for Atlanta-based UPS, said in an e-mail.

FedEx, which operates the world’s largest cargo airline, is preparing to move aircraft back to airports that were in Irene’s path as soon as the airports open and it can get employees in position to handle the planes and packages, said Scott Fiedler, a spokesman for the Memphis, Tennessee-based company.
Some customers may experience delays in pickups and deliveries because of downed trees and power failures, said Fiedler, who estimated that FedEx has more than 10,000 employees in the Irene storm zone.

How express service company calculate the shipping costs?

Most of our customers don't know how express service company calculate the shipping cost. This is very important. Because nobody would like to be charged more. Therefore, it is time to make it clear now.
UPS, Fedex, DHL and TNT are the biggest global express service company in the world. They use the same method to calculate the shipping costs.

The quotation of Express service company based on the WEIGHT. The unit they calculate the cost is 0.5KG. If the weight of a package is less than 0.5KG, they will calculate it as 0.5KG. For example, if a package is 1.55KG, they will calculate as 2KG rather than 1.5KG.

However, when they receive the package, they not only consider the weight, but also the volume. If the weight is bigger than the volume, they calculate the costs by the real weight. Otherwise, they calculate by the volume weight. What is volume weight? Volme weight is noun using only on freight industry. The formula of volume weight is length*width*height/5000, the unit for length is CM, the unit of volume weight is KG.

Take an example, if the weight of a parcel is 4.2KG, Length is 28CM, Width is 22CM, Height is 22CM. So volume weight is 28*22*22/5000=2.72KG. Therefore, express service company will calculate your parcel as 4.5KG.

Take another example, if the weight of a parcel is 4.2KG, Length is 38CM, Width is 32CM, Height is 32CM. So volume weight is 38*32*32/5000=7.79KG. Therefore, express service company will calculate your parcel as 8KG.

Different shipping agent have different discount. So it is difficult to tell you what cost is reasonable. However, since you know how they calculate now, you can do something save your money, such as reduce the size of the package. If the weight or the volume weight is 4.52KG, you'd better try to make it lighter or smaller.

Creative advertisement of Fedex International Express service

Fedex advertisement is very creative, I agree Transformer should be faster.

I am not sure if UPS will be very angry with such a ads.

Fedex is so fast that it couldn't stop its ship.

It's so similar as Doraemon's Random door. You can arrive anywhere when you open the door. It's so quick.

This ads for Fedex is too creative to understand. I don't know. Can you understand?