Dear Kunmingers, I just arrived in town and am waiting for two parcels who are supposed to arrive from NewZealand and America. I was waiting for them to be delivered to my house, but now a friend told me that I will most probably have to go to the international arrivals postoffice and get it myself.
Does anyone has experience with this? And knows where this postoffice is?
Thanks:)
You probably will get a phone call when the parcel arrives, they will tell you where to go to pick it up, or someone may just come by to give you that, depend on which delivery service you use, wait for the call.
Yuantongsi
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If they are coming by the Postal System (Not a courier) then you should get a slip in your post box telling you to bring your passport and the slip to the International Post Office on Beijing Road.
If you have waited a few weeks (5-6 weeks after posting) but still no slip then go to the International Post Office and ask for the parcel, you should check their entry book yourself if they can't find it.
The International Post Office is no more.
Go 30-50 meters south of where the International Post Office was to the regular ChinaPost office.
Sadly, the International Post Office was really good in Kunming. It worked well. In Beijing, you had to go to a local ChinaPost office and the location seemed to change and sometimes English was nonexistent.
I had more comments here:
gokunming.com/en/forums/thread/6541/receiving_packages
Tip:
I have great success (California, LA, to KM, for pickup, in 10-12 days) using this type of address for incoming stuff:
Your name
Your address in pinyin WITH POSTCODE!!!
(space)
_____________________
Your address in hanzi with mobile number
You can add up to 4 weeks to the normal lead time for USPS items. Things can get stuck in customs.
thanks for the infos, so i'll just wait and see what happens:)
Don't just wait. Even DHL need chasing here sometimes.
If the parcel does not have your phone number on it, you will need to go to the post office to chase them.
Expect for PO staff not to be able to find parcels the first time.
Don't go just before lunch, you will get fobbed off.
Take cash as you may have to pay customs duty.
Expect to have to provide an inventory/packing list, if it did not come with one.
Customs duty:
I had to pay duty (tax) end of August, 2012. Here is the notice I got by mobile phone:
有您的国际邮件需要办理清关手续。地
址：昆明市官渡区吴井路513号附1号(百大城市理想,
长村邮局旁)
单位名称：昆明国际快件监管中心三楼报关报检办公、
室。受理时间周一到周
五9:30-11:30am-13:30/5:30pm, 收税时间每天截止下午
三点。携带有效证件办理
电话7156605
It is just inside the East 2nd Ring Road. A little hard to find, taxi dropped me off 200m away and around a corner. I saw EMS/ChinaPost trucks going into a compound and that turned out to be the place. First you need to find the office on the 3rd floor. The packages, hundreds of them, were all over the warehouse floor. Technically, you need to go a specific bank to pay the duty, then with the fapiao return to customs to get you package.
People were nice, friendly, spoke enough English, so be cool, smile and don't show emotion. Mostly, you need help. The customs guy made a mistake in the duty amount so we opened the box, he checked it, and he reduced the tax 50%. Very reasonable.
You will receive a phone call if you have your phone number listed with your receiving address; if not, you will receive a slip, either from the post office or from customs office, depends whether you make customs declaration or not when you ship your box at originating post office. If you claim your value less than RMB100 ($16) on the declaration form, and attach the form on the box, your box won't be stuck in customs. So if you don't have a customs form on your box, you will most likely have to deal with customs office.
