package receiving place in Canton, Ohio
August 1, 2024 10:03 AM   Subscribe

There is a tech gadget I need to order for work, they don’t ship to my country. A friend in Canton, Ohio will gladly collect and ship it to me but his wife won’t let him give out his address. Is there a business in the area that will let him receive a one-off package for a fee?
posted by The Last Sockpuppet to Grab Bag (8 answers total)
 
Can your friend place the order to himself, remove the shipping insert, and then forward it to you? (Rather than you placing the order using his address.)
posted by phunniemee at 10:28 AM on August 1, 2024


Can your friend receive packages at his place of work?
posted by yeahlikethat at 10:29 AM on August 1, 2024 [2 favorites]


There are a few UPS stores in Canton/Akron. Maybe call them to see if they'll do a 1-time receipt. (I don't know if their services are charged by the month?)
posted by hydra77 at 10:34 AM on August 1, 2024


Best answer: Most of those one-time receiving services are close to the border so that Canadians or Mexicans can order things and pick them up themselves. The inland stuff is more monthly service fees. Given the discounts they can manage on shipping costs, you will probably find it cheaper to use a service like forward2me or myusaddress than to have an individual do this for you.
posted by jacquilynne at 10:38 AM on August 1, 2024 [1 favorite]


Can you confirm in advance which delivery service will be delivering the package to Canton? Most of them have a hold for pickup option where you use the address of the local delivery option as the address and then pick up there. For US Mail this is called General Delivery. For UPS you can "hold for pickup" For Amazon you can use Amazon lockers. If you search on General Delivery in AskMe you find more about how that works.
posted by metahawk at 10:43 AM on August 1, 2024 [1 favorite]


If they don't ship to your country because of tech restrictions, and not jsut shipping reasons, please be cautious about putting the friend at risk.
posted by theora55 at 11:21 AM on August 1, 2024 [1 favorite]


If your friend will be buying it through Amazon, I’ve read that Amazon will ship to Amazon Fresh supermarkets, and he could pick it up from there.
posted by jamjam at 12:00 PM on August 1, 2024


Amazon Fresh is not in Ohio but there are Amazon Locker locations in and around Canton.
posted by tubedogg at 12:54 PM on August 1, 2024 [1 favorite]


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