I have a recent order from my US supplier which they shipped my package of 21lbs via UPS. They charged me USD 82.73 which I thought very expensive. But when I went through the websites you mentioned here like VIAddress and VPost, their shipping charge is still more expensive than my supplier charged me. So I wonder if I should just remain as it is...

I didn't use any US forwarder, my supplier simply help me to ship my order via UPS.

My supplier is an US-based book distribution company: Ingram Content Group. Guess I'll just stick to their shipping service.

Oh! Thanks for the info, I'll consider to use it to ship my package.

Btw, from the UPS tracking service, my supplier ship to me using UPS Worldwide Saver. I heard UPS is the most expensive courier service in US, followed by Fedex and DHL. Not sure whether it's true or not.

The shipping cost you posted here doesn't include fuel surcharge and other fees like insurance, duties and custom clearance fee right?

Recently I have a shipment of 4 packages ship by comGateway via DHL. But 2 of my packages was mistakenly delivered to Kuching sorting facility, now I have to wait after Raya in order to receive my package! Is DHL that bad?

Thanks for telling! I used Comgateway recently and had a painful experience with DHL. Think I'll switch to usgobuy.

I just checked with the shipping rates on usgobuy and I found out the shipping cost a bit way to high.

Previously I had 4 packages (16 kg in total) at ComGateway shipped using DHL, including the insurance, surcharge, consolidation fee etc, the cost is USD 134.20.

But when I use the shipping calculator at usgobuy to check for 16kg, I got the following figure:
DHL Express USD 241.48
USPS Express Mail USD 231.89
USPS Priority Mail USD 193.43

No matter ComGateway or Viadress, all shipping companies uses two ways to calculate your shipping fees: actual weight or volumetric weight.

Take mine as example, I shipped my son's toy (a large garbage bin truck) back to Malaysia. The actual weight of the toy is roughly 3.5kg, but the size of the carton is so big that the volumetric weight is 14kg. So the shipping fee will be charged based on 14kg, not 3.5kg. Luckily ComGateway offers me a repack service that they helped to decrease the volumetric weight to 4kg.

Hope this explains.

I never use Viaddress before so I cannot comment more. But does Viaddres offer you a repack service?

Then I have no idea on this. What is the item you're shipping anyway? And which courier service did they use? Mine they used DHL to ship.

I think your problem with high shipping fees maybe because of the volumetric weight of the fishing stool even after repack. And if not mistaken, Fedex's fees is higher than DHL.