collegiate services

COLLEGE SERVICES:

A2 Global Shipping serves students from more than 200 campuses across the United States. A typical shipment consists of various boxes of personal items along with a a bicycle, desk chair, television or other pieces that may be shipped anywhere in the US or world. Here is the typical process:

Shipments to destinations within the United States:

• • • purchase boxes - order boxes online here;

    • fill out the online form specifying a pickup date;

    • boxes, bicycle and any other pieces are picked up at your residence and shrink wrapped to a pallet;

    • the pallet is weighed and measured to determine a final billable shipment weight and the shipper is billed electronically;

    • your pallet and pieces are delivered to a regional terminal;

    • at the regional terminal your pallet goes out on the nightly "line haul" for transport to a regional terminal near your destination;

    • when you pallet arrives at the destination terminal, you or your recipient is contacted to schedule a delivery;

    • the wrapped pallet is delivered to your driveway/sidewalk.

Ocean Shipments to destinations in foreign countries:

• • • when sending a shipment out of the country, all shippers are required to provide a passport or other identification number;

    • it will also be necessary to complete the inventory form listing the contents of your shipment;

    • from a regional terminal, your cargo will be transported to a port facility where it will be placed in steel container for ocean vessel transport;

    • the container is loaded onto a vessel and transported by sea vessel to your foreign port of desintation;

    • once you the cargo is loaded onto the vessel, you will receive a Bill of Lading;

    • you or the recipient of the cargo will submit the Bill of Landing and Contents Inventory to the customs office at the destination port, prior to the cargo arriving;

    • when the cargo arrives at the foreign port, the agent there will contact you for the following purpose:

      • advise you of when the cargo will be available for you to pickup;

      • provide you with a written estimate of any port, destination, handling or agent fees assessed by your port of entry;

      • provide you a written estimate of any delivery charges if you wish to have the port agent arrange for delivery of your cargo from the port;

      • advise you of any fee if you wish to have the agent "clear" your cargo from customs rather than "self clearing" with your Contents Inventory and Bill of Lading.