How APO/FPO Shipping Works
APO (Army Post Office), FPO (Fleet Post Office) and DPO (Diplomatic Post Office) addresses are processed through the U.S. Military Postal System. When you place an order on ShopMyExchange with a military address, your package ships to a domestic military mail processing centre via standard carriers. From there, the Military Postal Service routes your package to the overseas installation. This is why military addresses use U.S. state abbreviations (AA, AE, AP) and domestic ZIP codes — the postal system treats them as domestic destinations.
This means a service member in Okinawa, Japan pays the same shipping rate as someone in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The Exchange absorbs the additional cost of international military logistics. For families stationed overseas, this benefit makes ShopMyExchange the most economical way to purchase American goods without paying international shipping premiums.