I used to use a US parcel forwarding service to shop online and have things forwarded to me in Canada. One of the services they offered was first shipping the U

I used to use a US parcel forwarding service to shop online and have things forwarded to me in Canada. One of the services they offered was first shipping the US origin package to their warehouse in China (presumably via some kind of discounted or chartered freight service) then forwarding it on from there to the destination country via China Post. This could actually be cheaper than mailing something directly from the US to, say, Switzerland due to the low UPU rates out of China.