How to send a package overseas?
Your shipments to DOM-TOM or from DOM-TOM must be accompanied by an invoice in order to carry out the customs clearance of the goods. In addition, the packaging of your package must be suitable for express transport. The shipment of fragile products to the DOM-TOMs must benefit from suitable packaging.
If you wish to frank a package without having to travel, you can do so via Colissimo online. To use this remote service, you must first fill in the properties of your shipment. Then print the generated label and place it on your package. Drop it at the end of your mailbox.
Delivery can be made before kl. 9, kl. 10, kl. 12 or at For a parcel to French Polynesia, the delivery time can vary from 2 to 5 days. If your package is of an urgent nature, do not hesitate to opt for the Economy Express service.
Basically, it’s as if you send your package to France while the HUB address is abroad. This allows you to stay on French and not foreign pricing, which is double or even more. It is therefore necessary to specify to the post office that the package is intended for a SP (postal sector).
How to send a parcel in the postal sector?
Parcels (and mail) intended for soldiers on “OPEX” (and warships on mission) all pass through the Poste Interarmee sorting center in Paris, where the shipments are packed. Only packets whose volume allows insertion into a postposition are sent.
Your shipments to DOM-TOM or from DOM-TOM must be accompanied by an invoice in order to allow customs clearance of the goods. In addition, the packaging of your package must be suitable for express transport. The shipment of fragile products to the DOM-TOMs must benefit from suitable packaging.
Frank your Colissimo on laposte.fr/colissimoenligne and choose to send it to a mailbox. Print and stick your shipping label, then drop your package in your mailbox available to the carrier (this is the case if you have already received Colissimo).
La Poste sends letters and parcels addressed to the military and weighs up to 5 kg free of charge (without additional services). Letters and parcels sent by the military and weighing up to 5 kg (without additional services) are also transported free of charge.
How to send a package over 10 kg?
1 Fill in the information about your weight / package. 2Select the Relais Colis® drop-off and destination points. 3Print and stick the label received on your package if you have not selected the Smart option. 4 Deliver your parcel to the Relais Colis® point of your choice.
Apply the fluorescent yellow UPS sticker to your package, to the right of the address label for better visibility, and write the package weight in the white area of the label.
Shipping of large parcels A protective layer must be placed on the bottom of the parcel, the goods must be packed and covered with polystyrene to limit shocks and thus protect them. If you have your own packaging, check the maximum weight allowed in your packaging.
Cocolis is also the ideal solution for shipping large or heavy parcels. As soon as a package exceeds 30 kg or is too bulky, it is either very expensive or impossible to have it transported. With Cocolis, all you have to do is alert the private person who undertakes to transport your package in advance.
How to send a package without going to the post office?
If you send your parcel normally (neither Colissimo nor Chronopost) and without recommending it, it is not necessary to have the address or the indication of the sender. However, if the parcel is lost, or if an error has occurred in the address and the parcel is not delivered, you have no way of recovering it!
It is now possible to send packets from one Point Relais® 1 to another. This solution, as envisaged by Mondial Relay, allows individuals to easily and quickly send parcels to the other end of France. In addition, this service is cheaper than sending Colissimo from Posten.
To guide
- Prepare your transport label online at www.chronopost.fr and select the option without transport label printing. …
- Go to your nearest pick-up point with your package.
- Present the QR code from your smartphone.
- Do not forget to note the parcel number on your parcel.
When you arrive on the La Poste website, all you have to do is fill in all the information concerning the package, the sender and the recipient. Next, select a shipping method: drop off at the post office or in the mailbox.