After becoming our member, you can place orders online on Amazon or eBay, and when you will be asked for the address for delivery you will enter your personalized street address of USA (the address of our USA warehouse). We call these personalized street addresses in USA, China, Germany and UK as your Global Street Addresses. Amazon delivers your order at this personalized street address and from there we ship (via DHL, FedEx etc.) at your given address in Pakistan.

• There are many eShops in USA, Europe and China that don’t ship globally because of one reason or other so a customer sitting in a country like Pakistan have no access to those products.
• In the events of Christmas/New Year Sales, the retailers that provide international shipping in ordinary time period, don’t ship globally because of their narrow margins due to reduced prices.
• Our business model eliminates above hurdles and allows Pakistanis to enjoy shopping like a global citizen.
• Amazon ships only 4% items globally. Being our member, you’ll be having access to 100% items of Amazon.

• It depends. When you select an item at Amazon it tells you the estimated time of delivery at USA address, if order is placed before certain time. Most of the Amazon orders are delivered next business day and some orders at same day if placed before certain time.
• Apple delivers orders same day within USA, if order is placed before certain time of the day. When placing an order on Apple website, input the postal code of your address and Apple will tell you the exact time of delivery (normally it is same day).
• Many other retailers in USA either deliver the same day or the next day within USA. Delivery is mostly free of cost.

Absolutely Yes! All of your shipments received in our warehouses are fully insured.

• We will notify you through email as early as we receive your shipment at our warehouses.
• For China, Germany & UK, we will send pictures of the shipments once we receive your packages at our warehouses.
• You can also see the status of all your current and previous shipments on your personal dashboard at PkShip.com.

• Absolutely! We will notify you on each & every step in the shipping process so that you’re aware where your package is.
• We are in process of establishing a system where we will be sending SMSs to our members updating them for each & every step during shipping process.

We use DHL, FedEx and USPS for bringing the shipments to Pakistan and hire services of local courier companies to deliver your orders at your doorstep. The local courier companies deliver at your local address in Pakistan within a day as per our agreement with them.

Initially we will pay customs duties on your orders while clearing the shipment at Lahore Airport and we will bill that duty & taxes to you. Our invoice will include the shipments charges as well as the customs duty, if any. The customs duty depends on the price mentioned on the invoice by seller. If we receive your package without an invoice at our warehouse, we will inform you immediately. We may also contact the seller on your behalf and arrange for the invoice. If the amount on invoices differs from what you have paid then please inform our office immediately before we ship it to Pakistan.

You will be able to do online shopping at any online store anywhere in the world especially in USA, European Union countries and China. Many online stores do not ship globally so having this street address enables you to shop anywhere you want.

Absolutely YES!

Absolutely Yes! Your global address makes you a global citizen. You can order at any eShop that delivers to these addresses. This is an era of borderless shopping.

• Amazon has 458+ Million items listed on its website for sale and out of that only 4% items are eligible for global shipping.
• So even if Amazon starts delivering to Pakistan, you will still have access to 4% of Amazon only. By having your personalized USA street address, you will have access to all products of Amazon. Same is true for eBay and AliExpress
• Your addresses in USA and UK give access to www.amazon.com and www.amazon.co.uk respectively. More sellers, more countries and more varieties. Enjoy!

• Almost all branded products are cheaper in USA as compare to the rest of the world. In fact most of the UK’s brands are cheaper in USA as compare to their prices in home country (UK).
• Apple’s products are cheapest in USA as compare to its prices in rest of the world. There was a time when people used to fly from London to NYC to buy iPhone and were able to save money instead of buying from Apple store in London.
• We have listed down comparison of certain products to explain the price difference. Please click here
  
• There are many articles published in international media regarding this disparity of prices. Please see links of few articles below:
  http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2237485/How-designer- labels-cost-60-US-London.html#ixzz3u7zgf8He
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/money-saving- tips/10982132/Why-are-electronic-goods-so-much-cheaper-in-the-US.html
  http://www.bbcamerica.com/shows//blog/2012/07/10-things-that-are- cheaper-in-the-us
  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6643357/Primarked-up-US- stores-prices-cheaper-than-UK.html
  http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22868787
  

Absolutely! If you want to buy grocery items from USA then Walmart is the right place. Walmart offers the cheapest prices of grocery products in USA.

At present sellers at AliExpress deliver orders free of cost but their delivery time is 45-60 days. For a fast delivery, the sellers there allow you to choose DHL & FedEx but the cost is so high that in most cases it exceeds the cost of item you are planning to buy.
Currently Pakistani eShoppers of AliExpress are facing these problems:
(a) Free shipping takes up to 60 days to reach Pakistan
(b) Free shipping uses Pakistan postal services in Pakistan that normally holds your orders for one reason or other
(c) eShoppers want to buy many products from AliExpress at one time but it is hard to find all products with one seller.
(d) If someone buys 15 different products from 15 different sellers then you will end up with receiving 15 shipments and delivery time of each item will be different.
(e) The shipping fee charged by the sellers (DHL or FedEx) is very expensive, in case you need fast delivery. When you add up the shipment charges for 15 shipments separately (for fast delivery) the overall cost of all 15 items becomes very high.
(f) Many cell phones & electronics items listed on AliExpress are not available for shipping to Pakistan (even with expensive shipping).
PkShip’s solution:
You can use our China's address while shopping at AliExpress. Notify the seller that you want the delivery in China. We will receive all your 15 shipments at our China's warehouse. Upon receiving your orders we will send you picture of your shipments received at our warehouses in China. We will consolidate all your orders received in 2-3 days and ship these in one carton box to Pakistan. Based on the price you agree with the seller, we will pay the customs duty (if any) and deliver the items overnight to your doorstep.

For more guidance on placing orders @ AliExpress, please click here

Absolutely! Many companies in China provide their products’ samples free of cost however delivery charges are normally borne by the buyers. All such buyers who need free samples can register with us and use your street addresses in China for fastest delivery at cheapest shipping charges.

Absolutely! All countries in European Union are just like one country when it comes to travel or transport of goods. All online stores within UK, Paris and other EU countries are able to deliver orders at your Germany's address within a day or two. The shipping charges from Germany are cheaper than that of USA, UK & China.

• Absolutely yes! Our shipping charges for delivering letters are far cheaper than any other courier company.
• We charge flat fee of USD 10 for mail envelope up to 0.5KG. Any weight beyond 0.5KG, the normal shipping fee table will apply.

Absolutely! We entertain such requests. We totally understand that getting more weight reduces your shipping cost per pound/KG. We suggest that you place all your orders in a manner so that we receive all your orders within 2-3 days.

Yes.
To see the list of prohibited items from USA. Please click here.

Because we charge shipping fee proportionately, based on our current shipping formula, it will cost you USD 7 where USD 6 (= 200/500*15) are for shipment charges and USD 1 for shipment handling charges incurred in USA warehouse.

• This means that if you buy 170 grams item, we will charge you shipping charges for 170 grams (not 0.5KG). If you buy 0.55 KG item, we will charge you for 0.55 KG (Not 1KG).
• Like other courier companies we don't charge flat fee for 0.5KG or 1KG. Our proportionate charging system is fair for everyone. This benefits those who want to order items with less weight.

Our minimum shipping fee is USD 4 (including shipment handling charges).

We reproduce that table here:

The above table explains that if you buy 500 Grams of item from USA then next 100 grams are free of cost because shipping charges of both weights are same.
Likewise shipping charges of 8.6 KG from Germany are same for 10.17KG.
This table helps you to add more weight to your shipment without increasing the cost However on every new separate order shipment handling cost USD 1 per order will apply. But if you increase the quantity of products in an existing order, to utilize the extra weight, then there are no additional shipment handling charges because shipment is same.

Well, there are two scenarios of this situation:
    First: If Amazon combines all three orders and sends in one box as one shipment then yes, you will pay only USD1 as shipment handling charges.
    Second: If Amazon sends three orders in three different boxes then you will have to apply shipping calculator separately for each shipment.
    This is because shipment handling charges apply to each shipment individually.

As a policy we intend to revise our rates on annual basis to combat inflation effect, however if there is any sudden revision in shipping rates globally then we may revise our rates accordingly.

Absolutely! You will pay us what you see on our shipping fee calculator. There are no hidden charges.
We know that couriers out there charge these over and above the rates published on their websites. We don’t!

At present our delivery time is 3-8 days (This time starts when we receive your orders at our global warehouses.) However, we are confident to reduce the number of days in very near future.

Absolutely Yes! However, we will charge additional service charges to entertain that request.

Absolutely possible! When you sign up for PkShip, we allow you to enter more than one mail addresses in Pakistan specifying one as your permanent or default address. In case you want the shipment’s delivery at a different address than your permanent or default address then all you need to do it after having received email notification that we have received your shipment at our global warehouse, go online and change the default address in your profile and we will deliver the shipment at your new default address. As simple as that!

We accept following modes of payment:
1. Cash on Delivery
2. Online funds transfer
3. EasyPaisa
4. Cash payment in our office

You can deposit or transfer money to our bank accounts and notify us via dedicated email i.e. [email protected]. We request you to calculate exact shipping fee using our calculator to avoid any misunderstanding. Please make sure that you are using weight of total shipment including the weight of packing material in addition to weight of product itself.

We use USD selling rates published by National Bank of Pakistan. Click here for rates.
For delivery made on December 2, 2015, we will use USD rate of December 1, 2015 (previous day).

Couriers charge use a standard rule to calculate shipping fee i.e. (higher of the shipment weight or dimensional weight) * Rate/KG.
Dimensional weight can be calculated as follows:
Dimensional Weight (KGs) = (Height x Length x Width in Inches) / 300 or
Dimensional Weight (KGs) = (Height x Length x Width in cm) / 5000
Our shipping calculator calculates the fee based on above rule however for all shipments from USA we provide 50% additional weight to our members in case their dimensional weight exceeds the actual weight of shipment.
In other words, we don’t apply standard rule of calculating shipping fee if dimensional weight is up to 1.5 times of actual shipment weight.
Example: If you buy a guitar from Amazon whose actual weight is 5.1KG and dimensional weight is 15.8KG (42*18*6.3 inch/300). The calculation will be as follows:
Dimensional Weight 15.8KG
Extra weight allowed (50% of actual weight) 2.55 KG
Weight to be charges to customer 13.25KG

• As a matter of practice, if you're exporting certain items (nail polish, lithium batteries etc.) from USA then the shipper has to report the list of items to the related authorities. It is thus obligatory for us to open the package in our USA facility to comply with USA's rules and regulations. This brings additional cost to PkShip however we don’t charge it to our customers.
• Whereas in China and Germany, we don't open the package unless we think any incoming package is suspicious.

Most of Pakistanis don't have credit cards and PayPal does not accept Pakistani credit cards. Using these gift cards you can pay online on Amazon, MAC Cosmetics and Sephora etc.

A gift card works like a prepaid mobile phone card. Amazon, MAC Cosmetics and Sephora and many other major sellers have their own gift cards. When you are about to check out from Amazon and asked to make payment then select the "Amazon Gift Card" option to make the payment. After choosing this option you will be asked to enter the gift card number. Upon entering the number your balance will be deducted from the card and your order will be completed.
To redeem the card at Amazon.Com, please click here
For more Info Please click here

Your balance in the card will be credited to your Amazon account that you can utilize for future orders. The card balance never expires.

Select the card you want to buy and pay us money by Bank transfer or EasyPaisa or cash payment in PkShip office. After making the payment, inform us through email or phone call and we will send you gift card via email immediately.

• If you want to buy gift card of any other eShope, please drop us an email or make a call. We will arrange it for you in 15 minutes.
  Following brands have their own gift cards.
• Amazon, Sephora, Subway, Forever 21, Whole Foods markets, Olive Garden, GameStop, American Eagle etc.

Yes! You can use Amazon gift cards on any of the affiliated websites of Amazon i.e. smile.amazon.com, www.myhabit.com, fresh.amazon.com, and whispercast.amazon.com only.
For more info click here

1. Check if the sellers of your selected item are based in multiple countries. That means your selected item can be shipped from many countries.
2. Chose the country that has low shipping rates for you e.g. If same product can be bought from Germany, UK or China, then select the seller from Germany because the shipping cost from Germany is cheaper as compare to other countries
3. If you like a product that, for some reason, can’t be shipped to your China’s address then you can get it shipped to your global addresses either in Germany or UK. Shipping time (free shipping) to these countries is normally far less than time it takes to deliver in Pakistan.
4. Before buying anything, please confirm from the seller that he can ship your order to you China’s address. Few sellers don’t ship within China.

1. If you want to buy any item whose dimensional weight is more than its actual shipping weight, then buy it from USA because of the discount that you get on dimensional weight. You may find such item at low price in China however after paying the shipping cost it would become far expensive.
2. Always try to buy from brand’s own website. However you may find such branded items at cheaper rates on Amazon because the sellers normally buy from brands on clearance sales at huge discounts and resell on Amazon.
3. Normally you find many sellers of selected item on Amazon. Select the best option for you considering the local shipping cost and delivery time.
4. Buy all USA brands from USA retailers.
5. Even brands of other countries are cheaper in USA as compare to their home countries. Visit websites of both countries to see the difference in prices. For example: prices of L’Oreal products are cheaper in USA as compare to its home country i.e. France. Prices of many Clarks shoes are cheaper in USA as compare to its home country i.e. UK.
6. Cosmetics: Try to buy from brand’s own website. Try Sephora store because of its business model of selling various cosmetics brands under one roof. From Sephora you will get all items in one shipment. Explore websites of all stores of beauty & care to see the discounts.
7. Don’t use your USA’s address for the orders that were placed in another country.
8. Always explore Amazon.Com and Amazon.co.uk to see the price comparison of your item. A seller at Amazon.co.uk might be selling your item at cheaper rate than Amazon.com so go for the cheapest item after considering the shipping costs of course.

1. Shipping time within EU is normally 1-3 days. While placing orders in any EU country, select the country from where you can get your order timely with less shipping cost.
2. Per KG shipping cost from Germany is less than UK. So try to use Germany’s address while buying in EU countries.
3. If you buy from UK, consider the shipping cost differential between Germany & UK and see if you want to save shipping cost at the cost of extra 1-2 days (Shipping time from UK store to your Germany’s warehouse)
4. You can’t use your UK’s address to import lithium batteries, Perfumes, nail polish removers, cigarette lighters etc. Use your Germany’s address if you want to import these items to Pakistan.
   

If you need our recommendation for any other case not listed/covered above, don’t hesitate to contact us. We will guide you through….!

1. Apple products are cheaper in USA.
2. Cosmetics are cheaper in USA
3. Amazon.com has 580 Million items for sale. It’s in USA.
4. USA clothing brands are cheaper in USA i.e. Forever 21, American Eagle, GAP and Levi’s.
5. Multi vitamins, food supplements and organic food are cheaper in USA
6. UK’s brands are cheaper in UK
7. Cosmetics brands of Paris are cheaper in EU countries.
8. Germany has lowest shipping rates among all countries.
9. Germany/UK give access to all EU countries.
10. China has an edge of having AliExpress. Huge variety of products.
11. China provides quality goods with cheapest prices.