Brian and Jia Scott

Strictly with respect to the portion of your question over the shipping of items to the US, which you feel you will not be able to carry on the plane, either due to logistics or extra bag cost: When my wife and daughter and I departed the airport in Guangzhou on-route to LAX, we were maxed out on baggage, and had to leave a lot of their clothing articles behind in the care of my wife¡¯s family. The charges for overweight and/or extra bags were obscene. Shortly after our arrival in California, my wife¡¯s sister took the remaining shoes and clothes and packed them in two boxes, secured with strapping tape, each approx 1500g (33lbs.) and shipped them to us via China Post, from the local post office. They were marked personal items of clothing, value USD $60.00. The shipping cost for each cardboard box was 371.50 RMB (approx $55.00). There was no hassle with the PO and no problem with China Customs. We had the boxes delivered to our front door by the USPS approx six weeks, to the day, after they were left at the PO in Huadu Dist. Guangzhou. We felt this was the best deal possible and the six weeks went by very fast in the scheme of things. This was a big savings for us when I had first compared all the costs with Fed EX and UPS along with the airline. BTW, the boxes arrived in very good condition and had not been opened by either China or US Customs. Now wife and daughter have all of their winter clothes, boots and shoes, along with a few extra items added by her family. This was our direct experience. Roger, thank you for being detailed and helping me out... God Bless Ling

You got it Darnell!!! I have over 12 pairs of shoes have to be brought to The States...

my fiance lives in Zhan Jiang also. I am working on I-129F for her right now. she now works in Guang Zhou. Zhan Jiang is such a far away place. I would only take what you need in a backpack. you can buy everything else you need once you're in the US. Thank you for the advice Crazybanana... I thought of that before, but considering some of my favorite stuffs... so gonna carry them with me like my favorite shoes, very small sizes and pretty adult style, I think if I want shoes in The States, I need to go to Children's Shoes Shop to have right size, but with no style I may like...

Thank you so much Robert

Thank you for the advice, Chengdu4me, I am going to fly out next month God Bless Ling

3 to 5 hours, gotta write it down... it's important!!! No I am not looking at www.ctrip.com, I didn't even know about this site, but I am going in and reading it... Thank you so much Darnell! God Bless Ling

Ahhh, I see, I didn't think of that point (transit visa). Thank you so much for enlightening me about this, this is really important... Thank you so so so so so much Darnell God Bless Ling

It's ok, Darnell. But why you don't recommend any routings which include Japan or Canada? Are they bad or???

Got it Darnell You made me laugh so hard just now when I read the big city for fishing, makes me feel I am driving you to the edge of craziness... I couldn't know about the total yet cause it's 3am here... But now I have some clues about it... Thank you, Darnell. God Bless Ling

Oh, Darnell, I hope I didn't drive you crazy again... This is my first international trip and I have to fly to The States all alone by myself... Have no any clues about all these things... I haven't booked my ticket yet cause I have no idea which airline is better and cheaper... I was looking at Delta and American airline... I didn't know the POE would be read on my ticket... but thank you so much for being so patient and helping me out... God Bless Ling

Thank you for the information, George Lee. I really appreciate it! God Bless Ling

Hi Darnell, well or Sebastian Thank you for the suggestion, but I am afraid that is not applicated for me cause my husband is National Guard... But I still wanna thank you for the advice!!! Any way do you know about the POE? I checked the ticket, I am going to fly out from Guangzhou to Charlotte, NC, and I need to change my plane 3 times, first time in Japan, second time in a international airport in The States ( I don't remember it cause I was just browsing it to get some ideas about how it's gonna be) until I could get to Charlotte, so do you know about which POE is applicated for me? Thank you! God Bless Ling

Hi Yuejihua, thank you so much for the information, I didn't know anything about it... Thank you so much!!! I am flying out next month, so excited and so busy and headache with the packages... lots of stuffs, feeling like moving a house...lol... So how are you? God Bless Ling

guz wrote in their notes that dos has access to that our second (the first one got lost!) call in letter was sent out on november 20th....however, there was no posting of this tracking number in the EMS system until november 26th....hope this helps...steve Thank you for the answer, Steve. I am sorry I replied late... you may call me bad bad bad... lol... How are you doing? God Bless Ling

Thank you, freedream, I am going to fly out next month now... so many stuffs are going on here right now... So how are you? I hope you are doing well. God Bless Ling