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What is ePacket, and why should i use it?

The United States Postal Service, or USPS, and Hongkong Post created the ePacket service to increase mail and shipping options for Hong Kong merchants. 

The ePacket shipping option offers customers tracking and delivery confirmation when purchasing from merchants in Hong Kong who ship to customers in the United States. The ePacket services can only be used for packages that weigh no more than 4.4 pounds, as of 2011. 

The USPS treats these packages like first-class mail once they arrive in the United States. Packages shipped using the ePacket service use barcoded labels that the USPS and Hongkong Post can read and track.  

From our experience delivery time from china to .us or .eu in most cases takes 4-5 weeks or even more.   Using ePacket delivery shipping usually cut the waiting time by a few weeks, 


Using Expressfy Chrome Extension you have the ability to find the best shipping offers easily.

Learn how easily you can enabled/disabled the ePacket identification in Expressfy

ePacket & Seller Rating Identification allow you find trusted sellers easily. Expressfy Extension allows you to easily filter products with the fastest delivery times. this feature is part of our free chrome extension which can be downloaded here. ePacket & Seller Rating Identification is by default enabled, if you want to turn off this feature, right click (mouse) the Expressfy icon on your browser pick the option "disable epacket identification" , check the screenshot below.  


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