We are simply a couple of guys who sat down and talked about the struggles of shipping packages to missionaries overseas. We heard from many missionary moms expressing their frustration at the whole process of going to the post office, paying a bunch of money, and hoping that their son or daughters package would arrive within the next two months! Sometimes it wouldn’t ever arrive! No-one from the post office had any idea where the package might be, and a quick, easy answer would usually be, “It’s most likely stuck in customs”. All that time and money and care would go down the drain!! There simply had to be an easier way to ship quickly, be able to trace packages and not break the bank! This website is a culmination of over 15 years experience in the International and Domestic Shipping Industry. In looking at the success of many wholesale-to-the-public companies (such as Costco) we decided that perhaps shipping parcels could be done with the same concept: putting together a large buying group (missionary parents, relatives, and friends) as a single buying entity, allowing this entity to negotiate a very large shipping discount that can be accessed by a single portal (website) and a vehicle to do so (Global Mission Shipping). Membership is free and it is open to the public. This is the idea behind Global Mission Shipping.