Change Guam to Hawaii...Yes, it works!

I enjoy shopping via the internet.  It's fast.  Prices are a lot lower than on the island.  Plus, the customer service is a whole lot better.  It's practically nonexistent if you're just filling in boxes and then heading to the cashier, which calculates everything for you. 

Many times while trying to shop on line, even to get a catalog, Guam is no where to be found on the State Drop down box.  The ignorant marketing and sales divisions at these companies do not realize that Guam is an unincorporated territory of the USA.  They say we are a foreign country.  Really?!  Trying to school them via email or long distance telephone call doesn't get you anywhere.  One agent even told me that the reason why they don't send out packages to Guam is that they pay more in shipping via the USPS.  Hello?!  Guam and Hawaii are on the same shipping zone from the U.S. Mainland.  And, I'm the one that is paying for the shipping, not the company.  Sometimes I want to reach through the monitor or the phone line and grab their throat and squeeze some common sense into them.  Aiii adai, I digress. 

We'll I have done this numerous times already.  I gave up on trying to educate them about Guam's history in relation to the USA.  I just prey on their stupidity.  I take advantage of it.  They want to be ignorant, then so be it. 

Here's what I do.  When you want a product really bad because you need it.  And the company doesn't have Guam on the State Drop Down Boxes, and they tell you they can't ship to a foreign country.  Fret not!  Just go back and use "Hawaii" in the state box. 

Enter your address normally, except when you get to the state box since Guam is not listed, Use "Hawaii".  The next step is the most important.  Enter your correct zip code on Guam.  If you don't know by now.  The automated USPS reads the zip code off the parcel and directs your package to the island.  All of Guam's mail stops in Hawaii anyway to be sorted and then sent out.  I use to own a mail service store.  Insider information really helps out. 

NOTE:  If Guam is ON the state drop down List, that means they ship to us here on the island already.  OR, if it's not on the state drop down list, but it is on the foreign country list and the do ship to foreign countries.  That means they ship to us too. 

I hope this helps you in your internet shopping. 


ESTA