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How to select “Group my items into as few shipments as possible” on Amazon

1. Add all the items to your cart.
2. When asked, select “Group my items into as few shipments as possible” as your shipping preference.

   

If you don’t care about consolidation fees prefer to ship faster, choose the “Ship my items as soon as possible (additional shipping charges may apply)” option instead.

How do I take advantage of FREE Super Saver Shipping?

1. Place over $25 of eligible Amazon products in your Shopping Cart. Eligible items will say “FREE Super Saver Shipping…” next to their price:

   

2. Proceed to checkout.
3. Ship your items to a single U.S. address.
4. Select Super Saver Shipping as your shipping speed. Please note that your order will take an additional 3 to 5 days to ship.
5. Select “Group my items into as few shipments as possible” as your shipping preference.
6. Place your order, and enjoy the free shipping.

Problems with “Group my items into as few shipments as possible” option

If you make a single order on Amazon, there are several reasons why you may get it in multiple packages:

• Amazon has a marketplace. Orders from many sellers of the marketplace are not fulfilled and shipped by Amazon itself.
• Some items are shipped from different Amazon fulfillment centers.
• Orders marked as gifts may arrive as several packages.

But this list is not complete. For example, I ordered 4 toys from Amazon last week. All these toys were fulfilled and shipped by Amazon. All 4 toys would fit into a 26x13x13 box. But Amazon has sent these toys in 3 packages, although they were sent from the same fulfillment center and all of them were shipped the same day! So the following message about quicker service can be disappointing despite what Amazon thinks about it:

Greetings from Amazon.com, We thought you’d like to know that we shipped this portion of your order separately to give you quicker service. You won’t be charged any extra shipping fees, and the remainder of your order will follow as soon as those items become available.

If you use Shipito for sending packages overseas, you can always upgrade your free service plan to the Virtual Mailbox to enable package consolidation. But when using any freight forwarder you should always keep in your mind that you may get multiple packages instead of just one.

How to combine multiple Amazon orders into the same shipment

When possible, Amazon tries to combine multiple orders into the same shipment. This helps Amazon to reduce the number of packages they need to send to you, so you receive fewer packages and have less packaging material to dispose of when you receive your orders.

Amazon tries to combine multiple orders into the same shipment if the orders meet the following criteria:

• Multiple orders are placed through the same customer account
• The orders are being shipped to the same address.
• Items from each order are located at the same Amazon fulfillment center.
• The orders are shipping at around the same time.

There are some cases when Amazon won’t be able to combine shipments. For instance, they may not be able to combine the following types of orders:

• Orders that can’t be shipped from the same fulfillment center to meet your promised delivery date.
• Orders shipping from different fulfillment centers.
• Orders being shipped to different addresses.
• Orders being shipped to an international shipping address.
• Orders marked as gifts.

Amazon will also try to combine orders for items that are placed via 1-Click ordering into a single order if the orders are placed in the same 30-minute time period.

0.50 lbs (0.23 kg)
13″×9″×1″ (34×23×3 cm)
Shipito AirMail
Insurance: NO
Mailout fee: $1.00
Postage: $2.65
bank fee 4.3%: $0.11
TOTAL: $3.76

Some magazines are lighter than 0.5 lbs, some heavier.

See also:

• Free consolidation of magazines on Shipito
• Some samples on how much it costs to send packages/parcels to Russia using USPS and Shipito

USPS just ignores the fact that Russian customs doesn’t confiscate items silently (except for maybe weapons and drugs). If something like laptop (notebook), cell phone, iPad, iPhone, iPod is missing, it was stolen, not confiscated. When something is confiscated by the customs, you get a confiscation act. Actually when prohibited items are sent, the following options are possible:

• Seizure of the prohibited articles only, the rest delivered to the addressee.
• Return of the item to the country of origin.
• Seizure of the whole item.

But the fact that you didn’t get a confiscation act won’t stop USPS from not paying you for the insured items from the UPU prohibited list.

Now you know that sending something like laptop (notebook), cell phone, iPad, iPhone, iPod to Russia via USPS is risky. But there are things you can do to reduce the risk:

• Do not send send laptops (notebooks including macbook), cell phones (including iPhone), iPods, iPads via USPS.
• Don’t use the names like iPad, iPod, iPhone, MacBook… that are often stolen in the customs declaration. Declare iPad as a tablet, portable electronic device, electronic gadget,… Declare iPhone as a cell phone, portable electronic device, …Declare MacBook Air as a notebook, laptop

• trash them,
• enable fast mailout and send them to you via Shipito air mail,
• consolidate magazines with your packages.

When consolidating magazines with other packages many users wouldn’t want to pay the regular consolidation fee of $2 per package. Luckily there are 2 ways to get free consolidation of magazines on Shipito:

• Get “Virtual Mailbox Premium” ($25 per month or $150 per 6 months)
• Get “Virtual Mailbox” ($50 per year) and pay for more than 1 year. To be accurate virtual mailbox must be pre-paid for longer than 365 days and then there is no fee for consolidating magazines. Just watch when your Virtual Mailbox gets below 365 days as it will make the consolidation for a fee again.

Note that you can’t consolidate a letter for free. But you can request email shipping of the contents of the letter or pictures of it, which will be a scan for $2.

Insights from Remarkable Businesspeople (Collection of 16 ebooks) [Kindle Edition]

• Changing a Troubled Ship’s Course (Captain D. Michael Abrashoff)
• What’s the Problem with Customers? (Fred Wiersema)
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• Winning Customers with Commitment (Gary Hirshberg)
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• How to Rebound from Adversity (Glenn Mangurian)
• What I Learned from Peter Drucker (Jim Champy)
• What I Learned at the Naval Academy (Captain D. Michael Abrashoff)
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More free ebooks from the Kindle Store:

• 100 the most popular free ebooks and applications in the Kindle Store

Comparing VIAddress and Shipito shipping rates

If you take a look onto VIAdress homepage, you will find a very attractive chart:

So I decided to compare VIAdress estimated shipping costs to the costs of real packages I sent to Russia in 2011 via USPS Express Mail using Shipito

I do pay $50 for a yearly membership in Shipito, while VIAdress membership is free. But if I send a package of 34.7 lbs via USPS to Russia using VIAddress, I will pay extra $55+ compared to Shipito.

Some more details about VIAddress

Unfortunately shipping fees is not the only problem of VIAddress. VIAdress has the lowest possible rating on BBB. And there many complaints about VIAddress from around the world, some of them even lead an investigation by The Indiana Attorney General’s office.

Would you recommend to use VIAddress?

I have never been a customer of VIAddress, but personally I prefer to stay away from it.

Shipito shipping rates are one of the best. Considering the amount of services Shipito provides, their quality and cost, I think Shipito is one of the best freight forwarding companies.

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