How To Ship USPS International Packages and Fill Out a Customs Form

Looking to ship overseas? We’ll take a look at the 5 international shipping services USPS offers and show you how to ship USPS international packages!

Shipping international packages can be intimidating, but once you know how to fill out a customs form, you’ll be set to do as much shipping internationally as you want.

Of course, you’ll have to do some extra work of weighing your items and researching what that country’s restrictions are, but you’ll find it’s not as hard as you may have thought.

And USPS makes it easier by offering 5 international shipping services: Global Express Guaranteed (GXG), Priority Mail Express International, Priority Mail International, First Class Package International Service and Airmail M-Bags.

00:00 – How To Ship USPS International Packages
00:18 – What international shipping services do USPS offer?
00:34 – What do they have in common?
00:53 – USPS International Tracking
01:08 – What am I allowed to send internationally?
01:33 – How to Schedule a USPS Package Pickup
01:53 – How to Ship USPS Global Express Guaranteed (GXG)
02:22 – What is a DOC and NON-DOC package?
04:23 – How to Ship USPS Priority Mail Express International
05:17 – How to Find USPS Price Groups
06:29 – How to Ship USPS Priority Mail International
07:28 – How to Ship Packages with First Class Package International Service
08:07 – How to Ship USPS Airmail M-Bags
09:30 – How to Pack an Airmail M-Bag
10:11 – How to Fill Out a Customs Form
10:30 – Where can I get a Customs Form?
10:42 – Customs Form step by step walkthrough

We hope this helped and you have fun sending packages internationally!

As always, if you have any questions or ideas for other how-to's, please let us know in the comments below!
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Disclaimer: Innominate Kraken is not held responsible for any damages that may occur to your envelopes and packages in the mail when you choose to mail and ship them using the United States Postal Service. You choose to mail and ship them at your own risk.
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Customs Forms:

Schedule a Package Pickup:

USPS Postage Calculator:

USPS Price Groups:

International Shipping Restrictions and Prohibitions:

Index of Countries and Localities:

Country Price Groups and Weight Limits:

GXG Index of Countries:

GXG International Rate Tables and Rate Groups:

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[twinkie]

Very thorough and easy to follow. I have shied away from international shipping my entire adult life with no one to show me, didn’t think I would be able to understand or do it thank you. ***

[muamelanie]

Thank you so very much for this. I have to send a package to New Zealand to a winner for my YouTube channel and I've never sent anything outside of the US much less thought about what I have to do. I appreciate your details for us. I'm less anxious now.

[_justinprojects]

saved me loads of time. thanks for the great summary! ✌

[LILJOKER]

This video was very informative, seen the yellow mailer (Same one that I have now) on the thumbnail and knew I was gonna get the answers I needed 😅
Thanks!!

[SaveTheEarth]

Thank you for your lesson and now I'm ready... So yeah your information is still helpful now in 2023.🙏💯🗽🇺🇸

[JM-eeln]

You did great and should definitely keep up the videos!

[friedapartlow]

Thanks for your help this is very helpful

[tanchamalimbu]

I did Usps International from usps . I didn’t do custom form . It was 4.5 oz. From Maryland to Ireland . It is going to PA distribution and took 4 days . I am assuming from PA they will send to Ireland . Good luck to me. Any experience and knowledge is appreciated .

[Bluegrass-Lawncare-LLC]

Hi there, great video. We want to start offering shipping to Canada but being a family owned business with no experience this has been something we have struggled with. My question is, can we use our own boxes to ship to Canada like we do into the US through USPS? Does Shopify have all the forms available through their shipping features? We use Shopify, and there is nothing on YouTube explaining how to do it on shopify. This could be something you can do a video for, just a suggestion. Again thank you for the info. And great replies as well. Very engaged. That made me subscribe. Thank you

[Bluepear]

Hi thank you so much for the video! I tried recently mailing a priority international small rate flat box with the customs formed filled out online however the clerk at the P.O said that I needed a different box. I’m really confused

[fvlkiux]

Informative and easy to understand videos! I may be moving from New York, USA to Tokyo, Japan and was trying to determine the best way to ship additional clothes and shoes to Tokyo, Japan after I arrive. I'm estimating it'll be around 50-65 pounds. I don't care about the speed. What do you think would be the cheapest method to do this? Thank you

[jacksona]

Hey I loved the video and I had some questions for u. I wanted to shipped an Nintendo switch from USA to China what is the best way you think I should take and what kind of box should I get. Is there extras forms I need to filled out?

[samroller]

My issue is Im having trouble figuring out where to fill out my item as a warranty claim. I am returning it to the Czech republic so they can repair an item that i bought from them. I originally bought the item for thousands of dollars so im worried if i fill out the information wrong then customs will charge percentage since it’s expensive

[avrinrose]

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[Polaniar]

Hey there! I appreciate your time and effort put into this video. We are trying to send a package to Spain and have around 30ish items (mostly for newborns in the family). Do we actually need around 8 custom forms filled out with each item? (4x per form). Will my family in Spain have to pay fees for these items?

[cetsvnc]

what i wanna know is, my package was sent from nc to nigeria by 1st class package intl service and made it through usa customs, and i have tracking #, so how will i know once it reaches nigeria that it actually made it through there customs and will be delivered? they told me at post office 7-10 days.Help!! I have my phone # on customs paper but dont have international calling so thats no good. how will they reach me? how will i know if its gonna be delivered? will my tracking # work for international ?

[slimjimmichael]

I dont know how it happened but i had to pay $99 for shipping 6 pound package to Poland.

Coffee, chocolates, candle, christmas card. Declared value i had was $24.

What i also want to know is since this is a gift, will there be an import fee? Because at USPS it said there "may" be a $12 import fee which is ridiculous since it is a gift, and not worth that much ... its almost like it wasnt even worth sending it ...

[Samuel-wfsm]

My package was send august 10 and now is Sept 25 it reach Jamaica but it don't cum to my destination

[reagraphie]

please i want to shipping from china (epacket) But I don't live in China. I want to buy from a Chinese site and send it to the warehouse USPS. Done to another destination Can this be done

[jerocaldon]

Saved me pain of asking annoyed post officer workers for the proper forms... Great tutorial.