On Aliexpress, you can see the inscription free shipping, and most often it cannot be completely free, it may not be expensive or cheap, but the seller includes it in the price of the goods and sells it as if with free shipping.

Aliexpress is a Chinese Internet platform from which millions of parcels are sent by different sellers. And if we take China as a whole, then there are very developed postal services for the delivery of goods, because almost the entire economy of China is tied to the sale of some goods. The more postal services there are, the more competition there is, and accordingly the price of these services decreases.

In China, there is the main “China Post” (China post), there are also no less popular (Singapore Post, Hong Kong post) these services are almost 75-80% of all parcels from China to the CIS, so they are very popular and at the same time inexpensive.

There are a large number of other postal operators as local ones that deliver parcels only on the territory of China, as well as outside China. There are situations in which you can get the tracking number (tracking number) of a parcel, from some local operators, but after a couple of days, it changes to another number of the international postal service.

Such situations happen when sellers do not want to deliver the goods themselves to the branch of, for example, the same post office in Singapore and China. Sellers call a courier of a local company that delivers in China, after which they deliver the goods from the seller's Office to the office of, for example, China Post.

If you look at the delivery time, then these so-called “free” parcels are delivered longer than those for which the buyer will pay separately. The slowest most often (China Post) is 15-60 days, it may be faster (Singapore Post) about 10-14 days, but you need to pay about 5-10 dollars for it.

As fast as possible, within 4-7 m days it takes delivery from such logistics operators as DHL, FedEx, and EMS, but they are very expensive, for example, it may cost another 80-150 dollars to deliver a phone with such a service.

Almost all parcels sent that are cheaper by mail that are more expensive receive a tracking number, this makes it possible to track the parcel sent to your address.

You also need to understand that free shipping does not cover the payment of duties when the parcel arrives in your country, it is free to deliver it, but if the goods exceed the import duty of your country, then you will have to pay tax. Each country has its own tax tariffs and minimum amounts for imports.

If you want to order a large batch of goods, then you need to find out all the nuances in the tax service so that there are no unpleasant situations in the tax price.

After your parcel has passed customs, and if you have not been notified that you need to pay the duty, or perhaps you know the customs limits and know that your parcel does not fall under the tax, then you can safely wait for a written notification from the post office about the arrival of the parcel, this is if you ordered delivery (by China Post or a similar inexpensive service). If you have sent a parcel and paid for paid fast delivery such as DHL, or FedEx, then the courier will bring the parcel directly to your address.

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