APO or the Army Post Office and the FPO Fleet Post Office are military assigned addresses that allow the delivery of mail overseas at domestic charges. The military address format works like this: instead of writing a city or state you write APO or FPO followed by AE (for Europe Middle East, Africa and parts of Canada), AP (Pacific) or AA (America and parts of Canada) and the Zip code.

APO addresses are related to the US Army and the Air Force installations while FPO addresses are related with US Navy installations and ships in the United States of America.

Some merchandise can not be shipped to APO or FPO addresses since every country has its own restrictions. Here is some general APO Shipping information that may come in handy one day.

Packages shipped to an APO address can not exceed 70 lbs and 130 inches in length and girth. APO packages can not contain food, explosives, alcohol, guns or other life threatening arms.

In accordance with treaties and other international agreements, use of U.S. military postal services overseas is normally restricted to authorized customers, i.e., U.S. personnel (military, civilian and diplomatic) stationed overseas (either permanently or temporarily) and their dependents. Retired U.S. military personnel living overseas may also have limited access to the military postal service, depending on their country of residence.

Online (ecommerce) APO FPO shipping can be done quite easily since most online stores facilitate shipping anywhere in the world. When it comes to printer supplies, not every online store provides APO shipping therefore you must carefully read the terms and shipping regulations of the merchant. Normally if you want to ship ink to an APO or FPO addresses all you have to do, after picking the product of course, is to correctly fill in the ship form.

FPO office supplies can be found without difficulty over the internet. There is an increase in the number of firms that provide FPO office supplies as well as shipping in any corner of the world. Consequently you can find that getting the right FPO office product is considerably easier than it was in the past. Many people are inclined to think that every online store that facilitates FPO office supplies shipping is a con or rip-off but they couldn’t be more wrong since most of these online stores offer first-class office supplies, equipment products, consulting and different services as well as solutions to unusual problems and scenarios.