Originally Posted by Bosock

You may find it hard to believe but that is the way it is. I was overseas (Japan and Korea) for 13 years as a civil service worker for the Department of Defense. Anytime i bought a computer, bike, whatever, I paid to have them ship it to my APO address in SF and that was it. Generally it was two day ground shipping cost as if I was stateside (SF to be exact). Maybe in the last 5 years things have changed, but I truly doubt it. Check with your installation post office and you might get surprized...that or they have changed there policy on that. Which I would find hard to believe that they would make you pay extra to have US items shipped to you because you are serving overseas. Everyone I was stationed with encountered the same thing...fact of the matter, i remember purchasing a computer (Dell) and telling them it was not international shipping, they went and checked, and sure enough said i only paid for the shipping to SF.