Aramex Shop & Ship just launched a new service called Flex in which you pay for your shipments per 100 grams instead of the standard per 500 grams. Usually if you get a package that weighs 300 grams, Aramex would charge you as if it was 500, if your shipment weighed 600 grams then you would get charged for a kilo. By paying per 100 grams instead of 500, you should be able to save on shipping costs.
It would have been a game changer in the US mailbox forwarding market if it wasn’t for the fact that to be eligible for the new pricing structure, you need to pay Aramex KD35 a year. So whatever savings you would accumulate with the Flex pricing structure, you’d most likely end up losing it all with the Flex yearly fee. Not very practical unless you order a lot of items online. If you’re interested to find out more, click [Here]
26 replies on “Now Pay Per 100g with Shop & Ship”
I forgot about Aramex since 2015 .. they are expensive and there are competitors and many sites started shipping to Kuwait directly .. so unless they go back to the pre oil price increase rate (which was their excuse to raise the prices and they didn’t reduce their rates despite the decrease in oil prices)and take off the customs clearing 1 K.D they are useless to me
uPs does not charge fees on customs clearance (I ordered a laptop this Ramadan and it arrived to me with 0 customs fees)
whats the alternative? i order at 10-15 packages a month and i pay an arm and a leg with aramex’s shop & ship. what does one do to minimize these costs?
If you order that much then the flex package would work for u since I’m sure you’d make up the 35kd back. Personally I use posta plus because they’re cheaper but shop and ship for countries like Germany or Italy, locations posta plus doesn’t support
PostaPlus US address is located in a city where sales tax is charged, whereas its exempt on the Aramex SNS address.
Posta Plus is New Jersey, Aramex is New York. Neither are exempt from taxes.
7% for NJ, 10% for NY if anyone’s wondering.
New Hampshire is the only sales tax free state apparently
Order less stuff
I ordered the new Apple watch through Apple UAE website, they received the package yesterday but till now they didn’t update my box! The service is very slow and they have terrible customer service.
Well they just got your package yesterday so give them at least 24 hours. I’m sure your package isn’t the only one and it might have arrived end of day and they’re spending this morning sorting all the packages out
They received it morning time. 72 Hours have passed and no update yet! I don’t have an alternative in UAE otherwise I’ll not ship with them. They should allow us to pay extra fees on the package and ship it faster than usually do, paying 119$ is useless if they will not give flex members priority for shipping the packages.
Amazon has expanded their international delivery with a lot more products now. I generally find many of the products that I want available for international shipping, and it works cheaper and faster than shop and ship. They even calculate the import duties up front, and if the import duty was not paid (as happens in many cases), I get the refund back in my account.
Plus it is delivered right at my doorstep.
Doorstep in Kuwait? What shipping do most of those amazon packages have? And how long does it take?
Shipping is usually much longer (2-3x) compared to Aramex or PostaPlus. Cost wise, its perhaps the same or slightly cheaper than both.
2-3 times longer means it’s being shipped by snail mail which means you need to pick it up from the kuwait post office. Not a great option. If you want faster door to door shipping amazon offer that but it would be cheaper to ship to Aramex or posta plus.
Mark are you paid by Aramex or Posta plus to defend them?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MZ3LQQ5/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=marwie-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B01MZ3LQQ5&linkId=53bae6b88f24b044457c5bfcd3021e8d&th=1
that cost $42.46 to ship it to my door which is including shipping and import fees
and when I contact aramex they said 14.5kwd + 5% + 1 KD(which is I don’t know why) and that will take 2 weeks and amazon will take 1-week max
amazon shipping must cheaper than any shipping provider in Kuwait
P.S: Posta plus is a 3rd party and they use DHL to do the shipping that goes the same to Aramex
I don’t care how much you paid for shipping, what you ordered or what flavor ice cream you like. If you have a problem with an item you shipped you can complain here in the comments, you can contact the shipper or whatever but don’t come in here accusing me of being paid by both of them to defend them. So go fuck yourself.
It’s always been Aramex in my case.
AMAZON UK is the way to go now.
Sterling pound is 33% cheaper than one year ago.
Amazon UK will remove 20% VAT and will charge you for international shipping and suprisingly it turns out cheaper than buying it in the UK!!!!
Takes 3 days to arrive to my door step by UPS!!
Otherwise just use postaplus, better than garbage aramex and the jordanian mafia running it! I wonder why aramex S&S isnt out of business by now
Mark,
Is there any company that is willing to ship heavy things through the sea, but at much cheaper rate?
Alghanim Freight and Transcrate
Hey Mark,
I’ve recently used amazon and I was told the delivery would take 5-7 days from California to Kuwait, it reached my doorstep within 3 days, and all expenses were paid when the purchase was made. PostaPlus I’ve tried several times but the tracking system is way off. My all time fav mail forwarding is MYUS.COM they even have a personal shopper service for sites that don’t accept Kuwaiti cards, as well as the tax exempt. Oh, and I just don’t like Aramex many bad experiences before. FEDEX account I only use when the shipper wants you to pay for the shipping and they are overpriced. I ordered shoes and to be shipped directly with FEDEX priority it was gonna charge approx. $300 shipped it locally to MyUs account and consilidated 2 packages and had them sent to Kuwait via FedEx for $31 and 6kd in Kuwait.
The only issue with MYUS is they only give you a US address but heeeey it’s totally worth it!
I dont understand, Why is aramex still around when we have postaplus delivering my packages in half the time for half the price? posta is still unbeaten in price and quality. I lost 3 shipments with aramex out of 44 and I have more than 200 with posta and I’ve yet to have one shipment lost or damaged.
I agree but people either don’t know about it or they are too scared to try something new.
Don’t bother with Aramex. They stole my package and wrote it off for me to bother with the company who shipped it to them. I can give you more details if interested but I wouldn’t bother with them.
im planning on pre-ordering Iphone X and ship it to kuwait. whats my best option ?