About

We help you buy from US stores that won't ship to you.

How I Travel started with a simple, frustrating question: why is it so hard to buy something online and have it show up at your door when you live outside the US?

What we cover

Store guides
What Amazon, Walmart, Sephora and hundreds of other US stores will and won't ship abroad, and how to get around it.
Country guides
Shipping costs, delivery times and customs basics for shoppers in each country.
Package forwarding
How to get a US address and have orders forwarded to you.
Reviews
Forwarding services, travel banking and other tools for international shoppers.

How we research

Most guides are written by Tom, who has shipped more than a dozen orders abroad through a package forwarder. To choose which forwarder to recommend, we compared 14 of them on five things: service fees, monthly fees, how transparent their pricing is before you ship, speed, and customer service. Planet Express came out on top, and it's the one we use.

Every guide shows who wrote it and when it was last updated.

How we make money

Guides are free and have no paywall. We earn a commission when you sign up for some services through our links, for example Planet Express, TopCashback, N26 and SafetyWing, and as an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. It costs you nothing extra.

Commissions don't decide our recommendations, and we don't sell rankings. Offers from partners are labelled “Partner offer”.

Corrections

Stores change their shipping rules and carriers change their prices. If something in a guide is out of date or wrong, email hello@howitravel.co and we'll fix it.

Get in touch

Questions or partnership enquiries: hello@howitravel.co