>>1470405>by any means?Other than the package forwarding services, you can have the items sent to your "friend" in the USA. That person then takes the item to the Fedex Store to be packed to prevent breakage and then put into a double box if fragile before shipping. Why use a "fedex store" (or similar)? This reduces the work your friend has to do as you already imposed on him. Of course the Fedex store charges a premium for packing and boxing up the object.
history: there used to be lots of package and mail stores which gave home businesses a non-residential mailing address as well as a "post office type box" to receive mail. They also packaged goods and sent them. UPS then bought up many of these disparate mom&pop shipping shops and standardized their processes and look. Then Fedex came and bought the entire chain from UPS and made them much less nice. <-- my viewpoint
