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Shipments delivered via Rapid Express Saver will not necessarily be delivered to the addressee personally. The Carrier may deliver a package to the addressee shown on the barcode label or to any other person appearing to have authority to accept delivery of the package on the addressee's behalf (such as persons at the same premises as the addressee or neighbours of the addressee). When shipping to residential address, if the drop off location is in a 'safe' area, then the courier driver will leave the parcel at your doorstep.
Customs
When sending personal effects, the form 
CF3299 should be filled out and included with invoices to help with clearance.
Medical devices, drugs, etc. must comply with FDA (Food and Drug Administration) regulations and submit prior notice electronically at: www.fda.gov
Before sending your parcel to United States, please make sure that none of the items in your parcels contravene the restrictions imposed by customs at destination.
Customs website: http://www.cbp.gov/
Download a customs form by clicking the link below:
CF3299
Documents Needed
After you have paid for a shipping service to Usa, you will be redirected
to a page where you can download and print out the relevant shipping labels, i.e
AWB (Courier Air Waybills - barcode) - Proforma or Commercial invoice - Address label.
The above documents are standard for any international shipment.
Please note, if additional documentation is required for the import of any particular item, it is the
customer's responsibility to provide them at destination.
Restrictions
Goods travelling by 'Cargo' are subject to different restrictions to those travelling as carry-on
luggage.
A shipment to Usa is deemed unacceptable if: it is classified as
hazardous material, dangerous goods, prohibited or restricted articles by IATA (International Air
Transport Association), ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation) or other relevant organisation.
Many items which appear harmless in everyday use can pose danger on air transport and are consequently
forbidden for transport.
The following page displays a sampling of common prohibited and restricted goods.
http://www.rapidparcel.com/help/prohibited-items.php
Packing Advice
Your parcel must be boxed and well packaged. This will reduce the risk of damage to any item during
transit or any associated automated distribution process.
Please be aware the item is not taken by hand from collection to destination and will visit many sorted
facilities on its journey. For that reason, you need to protect the items to ensure they make it from A
to B safely.
The following packaging guidelines are recommendations to assist you in packaging your shipment:
http://www.rapidparcel.com/help/packing-advice.php
Shipment Protection
When you book a shipping service to Usa, you will be able to choose an
appropriate level of cover for your shipment. We offer enhanced parcel protection for up to £2000
for a small additional fee.
If you do not purchase enhanced Shipment Protection, your shipment will be only covered to a maximum
value of £50 as per the limited liability set out in our
Terms & Conditions and subject to your
parcel passing minimum packaging requirements.
Please note that the declared value for customs purposes is not related to the declared value selected
for Shipment Protection. We encourage all customers to purchase shipment protection cover for loss or
damage.
FAQs
We have a detailed and comprehensive Help Section here. If you cannot find
the answer or advice you are looking for there, please use our enquiry form
Everyone loves a bargain and, naturally, you want the best possible
price for your parcel delivery to Chicago. However, it is also critical
that your important package arrives on time. How can you be assured of
both?
By using the Rapid Parcel courier comparison service.
We've developed this ingenious website precisely so that you can
effortlessly compare the cost of a range of courier services for your
parcel delivery to Chicago or anywhere else in the world. Furthermore,
the shortlist of couriers generated by your online enquiry is made up
of household names in the international courier sector. In other words,
we will only ever put forward a courier for your Chicago package
delivery who has received our seal of approval. And we don't approve
couriers who are anything less than the best.
You can be certain that your parcel delivery to Chicago won't be the
first that our courier will have handled. Chicago, with close to three
million inhabitants, is the third most populous city in the United
States and the largest in the Midwest, and is one of the world's top
ten Global Financial Centres. Chicago was also named the fourth most
important business centre in the world in the MasterCard Worldwide
Centres of Commerce Index.
With an estimated 32.4 million domestic leisure travellers, 11.7
million domestic business travellers and 1.3 million overseas visitors
every year, Chicago is a busy place. It takes a seasoned courier to
make sure your Chicago package delivery runs to schedule. A thorough
understanding of the city's transport infrastructure is essential. Six
class 1 railways and nine interstate highways run through Chicago. The
city has two airports, one of which, O'Hare International Airport, is
the second busiest airport in the world. So there is no shortage of
transport links - the trick is choosing the right methods and routes
for your parcel delivery to Chicago. And that takes a courier with
skill, knowledge and experience. The kind of courier, in fact, that
makes it into the Rapid Parcel database.
Rapid Parcel's courier partners offer a next-day service for your
Chicago package delivery. So if your next lucrative contract is
dependent upon the speedy delivery of those architectural plans or the
prototype for your new domestic labour-saving device, we will see to it
that your parcel delivery to Chicago is in the hands of your potential
new client by the following day.
We've been making and fulfilling promises just like this for a quarter
of a century. So whether it's a Chicago package delivery, a parcel
delivery to New York or an item that requires shipping to Los Angeles,
book online with Rapid Parcel.
