How to order from Amazon in South Africa
The way it works is through a service called AmazonGlobal, and here is what Amazon says about it on its own website: “Amazon.com ships products internationally with AmazonGlobal. Available product lines, shipping rates and fees vary depending on the delivery address for your order.”
To see a listing of countries under the AmazonGlobal umbrella, click here. As stated, not all items are eligible, but many of them are.
To place your Amazon order from South Africa, simply go to Amazon.com and add the desired items to your shopping cart, then go to checkout and enter your address. At this point you should see if any items in your cart don’t qualify. Once you proceed, Amazon adds in all your fees and import duties up front and delivers your package via courier (Aramex), bypassing the slow and wildly unreliable South African Postal Service (SAPO).