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Best way to ship books from India to US?

What is the cheapest way to ship books from US to India?

  • I want to purchase few books that are exclusively available only in US. What is the cheapest way of getting them shipped?

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    Postal service is the cheapest. Expected delivery time 7-21 days (usually 3 weeks or more). Alternatively, you might want to check if such books are being sold by a different company in Europe, etc. For example, many people automatically assume US when thinking of Amazon, whilst Amazon UK is a more economically viable option. This may or may not be true in your case since you cited the books are exclusively available in the US. No harm in contacting the publisher and inquiring if there are alternate locations outside of the US that might ship these books.

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1) You can try Amazon. http://Amazon.com (USA) is offering international shipping on books. There are 3 shipping options: AmazonGlobal Standard Shipping (averages 9-12 days) AmazonGlobal Expedited Shipping (averages 5-10 business days) AmazonGlobal Priority Shipping (averages 2-4 days) The cheapest is the standard shipping, which is around $10.00 for a 1.6 pound book. The next two options were around $20.00 and $40.00 respectively. 2) You can try a social shipping site such as ours, http://ManyShip.com, and find your friends traveling from US to India. And get expedited delivery for less. (Disclaimer: I am the founder of ManyShip).

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Foreign shopper is the best service for cheapest shipping rates and they have consolidation services also.

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