In Panama there are several companies that offer this kind of mail forwarding service. The service is very simple:
You pay a monthly fee, and then you can use the physical address of their warehouse in Miami. All you need to do is add your customer number to the address. They take care of customs and they charge you an additional fee depending on the weight of the item.
I mainly use it for magazines subscriptions and for buying books in Amazon, but I know of people that use it for almost everything (furniture, industrial equipment, automotive parts, etc.)
I haven't had much trouble with merchants not accepting my credit card. In those cases where they will not accept a non-USA credit card, the mail forwarding service will buy the item for you using their own credit card.
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I wonder if it's related to the Talipot palm, which has a similar life cycle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talipot_palm
In Panama there are several companies that offer this kind of mail forwarding service.
The service is very simple:
You pay a monthly fee, and then you can use the physical address of their warehouse in Miami.
All you need to do is add your customer number to the address. They take care of customs and they charge
you an additional fee depending on the weight of the item.
I mainly use it for magazines subscriptions and for buying books in Amazon, but I know
of people that use it for almost everything (furniture, industrial equipment, automotive parts, etc.)
I haven't had much trouble with merchants not accepting my credit card. In those cases where they
will not accept a non-USA credit card, the mail forwarding service will buy the item for you using their own credit card.