Either I’m very dumb, or i’m very tired, or a combination of both. I need to ship a package from the US to Denmark via USPS. On the USPS site, I just cannot figure out how to enter the address information as it was given to me from the intended recipient. I am pasting the address in Denmark below. If anyone could help me understand which values go into which fields on the USPS international shipping site, I would be so grateful. I’ve tried ‘the google’ and was unsuccessful. The examples I found don’t seem to line up with USPS. Thank you! -35 U.S.C.
Mr. Recipient
Gammel Køge Landevej xxx <------where “xxx” is an actual 3-digit (house? number)
Vallensbæk strand, Sjælland 2665
Denmark
Thank you for the help, and the follow-up. Unfortunately the USPS site keeps rejecting me, regardless of what I enter, responding with "
You did not enter a valid delivery address.
You did not enter a valid delivery city.
I’ll keep trying though. Thanks again, and happy holidays.
I can’t be of assistance in filling out an online form, but… why are you filling out an online form? I mail packages to Europe now and then, but I just go to the post office, fill out the customs form there with a pen, and off it goes. What is it that you’re doing on the website? Just curious.
Online shipping discount, and saves me (well, it was SUPPOSED to save me) the time of having to fill things out at the crowded/insane/dangerous USPS location nearby.
(Sorry about the hijack, but now I have to comment…) So if I go online and I guess pay for postage through the website, it’s cheaper than going to a post office? Seriously? I had no idea.
So I figured it out. The USPS forms on the site will accept** “special” characters such as the “ø”, but when it gets submitted to their database, it gets rejected. No error message is provided to let the user know what the problem is, beyond the generic “you’ve entered an invalid address” I posted about previously. What else should I have expected from the government, really ?
Thanks again to all who posted. I’m so happy to be sending this out!
p.s. this is the most expensive 4lb, small package I’ve ever mailed…nearly $35 for the slowest available rate. All this for $19 in goods
A relative once asked me to send glycerin soap to her, a totally generic kind that she just couldn’t find where she was living. The bars cost something like 75 cents each, so I figured, “Damn! I’ll buy a dozen!” Then it cost like $15 to mail them.
Yes. Go to their website, select “calculate a price,” and enter in a hypothetical package description and destination; the results will show all of your options, and most of the options will have a at-post-office price, and a (lower) online price.
I ship international packages through USPS on a regular basis, and it’s much more pleasant filling out the customs form (and buying reduced-price postage) at home on a keyboard instead of at the post office, pressing hard with a piece-of-crap pen to make three copies.
Lately if you are shipping a package using first class mail, and you use a hand-filled customs form, the clerk has to manually enter the address info into his computer, which means you stand there for a ocuple of minutes while he does this. If you use the computer-filled customs form from home, then he just scans the barcode on that customs form when you show up to drop off your package. Much faster for you, and has the added public benefit of taking less of the clerk’s time, making a visit to the post office faster and more pleasant for everyone in line behind you.
Wikipedia has alternatives for Sjælland, but not Vallensbæk. Googling “Vallensbæk spelling” comes up with “Vallensbaek.” Maybe try that?
This is correct but it would not surprise me if the USPS database rejected Vallensbaek, in which case I would try it without the e.
This reminds of the fact that when I was spending some time in Aarhus (which could be, but isn’t always, spelled Århus) the town was the last place in the entire Jutland phone book. The reason is that å is the last letter of the Danish alphabet. Confusing to say the least.
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