Shipping Packages from the US to Hong Kong
Alternative title: how to move from the US to Hong Kong in 48 hours
I graduated high school this year at night in my living room on a TV thousands and thousands of miles away from school. This sounds tragic, but it’s a reality that I was already half-accustomed to before the pandemic hit. I’m originally from Hong Kong but have been attending a boarding school in Concord, MA for the past four years. If the world had been normal this year, my family still would have watched me graduate at night on a TV thousands and thousands of miles away from me and my school.
That makes my childhood sound sad, but it really wasn’t. I went home every summer, winter, and spring break. This year, I chose to stay in the US for Spring Break when COVID hit out of fear that I could not re-enter the country if I had left. Spring Break is two weeks long, and on the Monday of the second week, my Head of School cancelled all classes for the remainder of the school year and announced the closure of campus by the end of the week. At around the same time, Hong Kong introduced a government mandated quarantine for every passenger flying into Hong Kong to take effect on Thursday.
Wanting to avoid the GPS tracking bracelets as part of the government’s quarantine measures, I decided to fly home on Tuesday. Therefore, I had a little more than 24 hours to arrange my plane ticket, say goodbye to my friends and teachers, and pack everything I had accumulated over the course of four years. At around hour 4, I was done packing but realised I could not afford to fly with the 8 boxes I had produced. Stressed, I googled “ship from us to hk” and found Spaceship HK.
Their service is so easy to use! I clicked “get quotation” and entered the starting and ending destination of my boxes along with their respective volumes, weights, and sizes to get different prices and corresponding times of arrival from different shipping companies.
I picked the cheapest option, and off to the next page I went.
On the next page, I painstakingly entered the exact details of each package for Spaceship to accurately fill out customs declarations forms for me.
Then I entered my pick-up and drop-off address for the boxes and set a pick-up time for them to grab my boxes off my doorstep. I loved that I didn’t have to lug them anywhere for shipment!
Lastly, I paid, printed the shipping labels and receipt, and set them outside with my boxes. I didn't even have to glue my labels on the boxes!
At around hour 8, the mail man came to pick my boxes up, and I ordered my Uber for the airport. Before I flew that night, I had already received detail tracking information for my packages.
Of the horrifying and heartbreaking 2020 COVID graduating stories I have heard thus far, I feel incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon Spaceship. I genuinely don’t think I could have made it home without them. Their service is cheap, super easy to use, effective, and efficient. I cannot recommend them more.
