US Global Mail - Free 3 Month Trial for Expat Women Members

Hi Everyone, Our Bronze Sponsor US Global Mail, would like to offer you a free 3 month trial of their service, so you can experience just how wonderful they are. I encourage you to consider it! Andrea :)
US GLOBAL MAIL 

Shop and ship from the United States (US) with complete confidence with US Global Mail.

US Global Mail (USGM), has been in the business of making life easier for US expats and overseas shoppers for the past eight years. The company was created by expats and for expats, with a need to control their mail and packages while away from the US for extended periods.

The concept is simple, but the technology behind it very unique. Here is how it works:

1. You sign up online, send in a few forms to verify identity and you are given your own personalized mailing address in the US.

2. You can use this address to route all your incoming mail and packages to it. Once it is received, USGM will enter the details about the pieces received into an online portal.

3. You log in to your account and voila - you have all the information on the physical mail and packages received – you can now decide what you want USGM to do with it. You could choose to have it consolidated, select various shippers, or even have USGM discard it if it’s just junk mail or catalogues.

4. Everything arrives to you via FedEx, UPS, DHL or USPS – delivered to your doorstep, anywhere in the world.

USGM offers several unique benefits for overseas shoppers:
1. Retailers that do not ship internationally will ship to your USGM address. Shop from several online US shops – Gap, Abercrombie, Gilt, Hautelook, etc and have it all sent to your address in the US.

2. Consolidation - Have USGM repack everything so that you can cut the bulk and save tons on shipping.

3. Lowest international rates – the tremendous volume of shipping handled by USGM allows it to pass on the savings to their clients.

4. Security – USGM has a secure warehouse in Houston, TX and several layers of security on its website. So shop and ship with confidence.

5. Absolutely no hidden charges ever. Shipping companies are notorious for things like fuel surcharges, extended delivery area charges etc. With USGM, what you see is what you pay! They will never charge any fees that is not clearly posted on the website. You can even ask for a quote before you ship.

As a very special offer to visitors from Expat Women, US Global Mail would like to offer you a completely risk-free trial of their services at no cost for the first THREE months. Just click here and then use the code EXWO when signing up.

There is a reason US Global Mail has thousands of very satisfied customers worldwide. You can see some of the wonderful things they have to say about them at http://www.facebook.com/usglobalmail. Become a Facebook fan for even more exclusive deals!

Thank you in advance for considering to use US Global Mail – a valued Sponsor of Expat Women!

And thanks in advance for joining our main Expat Women site, if you have not already!  Andrea

Happy 4th Birthday Expat Women & Blog Shout-Out Competition!

Hi Everyone, Today is ExpatWomen's 4th Birthday online. It is a day that we celebrate all of the wonderful supporters like you in our audience - who send us positive emails, contribute ideas and who help us gain new members by telling your friends to join ExpatWomen.com as well. (More members = more sponsors = more bills paid = we stay online longer!)

So, a huge thank you to you, wherever you are around the world.  We genuinely appreciate your support and we are eternally grateful that you read our newsletters and share our site with your friends.  Thanks to you, ExpatWomen.com now has over 10,000 members worldwide - of 165 nationalities, based in 187 countries!

We also need to say a big thank you to our sponsors.  Despite the odds at times, we have managed to keep our site completely free and still paid all our bills (which is a great achievement for a very niche site). For that, we would like to take a minute to thank our (2011) sponsors: Aetna (Health Insurance); Barclays Wealth International; SIRVA Relocation; Trafimar Relocation (Mexico); Clements International (Multi-purpose Insurance); and US Global Mail. If you are in need of any of the services that our sponsors offer, please consider supporting them, as they do us.  Many thanks.

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Expat Women Blog Shout-Out Competition:

To celebrate our birthday, we are randomly giving away one US$100 Amazon.com voucher to one lucky blogger who gives us a positive, happy birthday shout-out on their blog - anytime between now and midnight 31 January 2011 (US EST).

To enter is as easy as 1-2-3:

(1) Say good things about our site and wish us a happy birthday for this month;

(2) Remember to include a link in your shout-out back to ExpatWomen.com; and

(3) Please email us your blog URL (in an email entitled something like “Blog Competition”), your name and location, by the deadline above.

Blog shout-outs help us a lot, so thank you very much in advance and good luck!

Potentially useful text for your shout-out:

ExpatWomen.com is the largest global website helping women living abroad. The site displays 1,000+ content pages, 1,600+ expat women blogs, 300+ readers' stories, invaluable country resource pages, interviews with successful expat women, loads of motivational articles and an inspirational blog and newsletter.

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Thank you very much again for your support Everyone! 

Have a great day/evening/week/year! Andrea x

Missed Some Great Expat Links On Twitter?

Hi Everyone, Here are some expat-related articles and links that I have tweeted about recently, that might interest you:

Expats: Looking for a way to shop conveniently from any US website? Check out our new Sponsor: US Global Mail! http://bit.ly/cNHNu2

Number of expat executives set to grow in next 5 years...? http://bit.ly/9tTjwe

Clements Receives 2010 Communicator Award for Expat Youth Scholarship Website http://tinyurl.com/2aln3t6

Many Expatriates - Many Voices - a study by Prudential: http://wp.me/p12mbU-1N

Did you move between 2008-2010? Take Association's PCS survey to win 1 of 2 $50 gift cards. http://bit.ly/PCSsurvey

Expat Focus 2010 Survey - Can You Help? http://bit.ly/boJleS

Use Social Media To Make Your Overseas Move A Success http://bit.ly/bUTocT

Worldwide ERC's October edition of Mobility now online http://bit.ly/cCxqXK

UK and US Expats wanted for brain mapping experiment at university in Beijing http://bit.ly/aigzbG

Global Mobility Summit - Presentations from New York Conference now online http://bit.ly/9zdRMM

Thinking of becoming an expat? 6 things to consider http://bit.ly/do1NGr

Interview with Robin Pascoe on Expats Radio http://almerimarlife.com/a-broad-abroad

FAWCO registration open: Morocco conference March 2011: American Expat Women & FAWCO Club members invited: Get 30 Euro discount http://bit.ly/bh4wRi

Expats in Vietnam? 101 Reasons To Love Living In Hanoi http://bit.ly/c9VXCw

Congrats Expatica! 4000+ visitors at their expat fair in Amsterdam http://bit.ly/cZlgeQ

To follow me in 'real time' and keep up with even more great expat links on Twitter, please click here.

Thanks for your support! Andrea

Expat Women: Looking For A Way To Shop Conveniently From Any US Website?

Hi Everyone, We are very excited to announce today our partnership with our new Bronze Sponsor, US Global Mail! 

If only I had known about US Global Mail years ago, it would have saved me many a frustration of not being able to buy what I wanted on US websites unless I was visiting the US... and it would have saved me all those excess baggage costs when I did visit the US and ambitiously brought back everything I had not been able to get since my last US visit.

If you are looking for the services they offer, please do support the companies that support us. Warmest thanks, Andrea.

US Global Mail

"Serving expats for the last 15 years, US Global Mail offers mail forwarding and fulfilment services to individuals and corporates.  Whether you are an expatriate from the US, travel for business, or are frequently abroad for pleasure, US Global Mail's mail and package forwarding service ensures your mail gets to you in a reliable, cost effective and timely manner."

Live outside of the US and want to shop US based websites that don’t ship internationally?

"Open an account with us to get your very own US street address, direct your shopping packages to your new US account and accept delivery anywhere in the world.  Don’t ever be locked out on great deals from eBay, Amazon and popular discounted designer apparel websites again, sign up today!"

Thanks US Global Mail for your support!