OconUs.com
Title
Oconus.com - Your APO Shipping & FPO Shipping HQ - Merchants offering APO/FPO Shipping!
Description
Oconus.com is a partnership dedicated to improving the lives of U.S. Military families, DOD Civilians, and other Americans living overseas. We strive to provide the net's largest collection of merchants who can ship to APO FPO addresses, along with information and features useful to those living overseas. We are not a one-man show with a collection of links that are posted and then never checked again. We have spent hundreds of hours searching the internet for merchants, information and other sites which are useful to our target audience. Since 1999 we have operated our website from Maple Grove, Minnesota, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our site is updated daily with the latest specials and sales being offered by our merchant partners. We also regularly update the site with news, information, and other links which are useful to families living overseas. One of our goals has been to utilize the talents of spouses living abroad to collect and maintain a large repository of data which we think will be useful to other military families long into the future. Because we know how difficult it can be to find work overseas for military spouses, we eventually hope to become an employer of choice for a good number of military spouses who enjoy writing about their overseas experiences.
When our founder, Dan Latvala, was assigned to Ansbach Germany in 1996, he quickly realized how painful it was for Americans serving overseas to shop online. Tired of finding out at the last screen of the checkout process that the merchant couldn't ship to his APO address, Dan devised his idea for Oconus-Shopper.com. The idea remained only a registered URL and a dream for the next three years of his tour. Although Dan considered launching the site while in Germany, military regulations about using an APO FPO address to operate a business and on operating a business from military housing precluded the site from becoming a reality until Dan separated from the Army and returned stateside in 1999. During the summer Dan developed the site and worked on it in the evenings after a full day's work with Andersen Consulting.
In the Fall of 2000, Dan met Kirk Hoaglund and the Clientek development team. Clientek's interest in Oconus led to a partnership that has vastly improved the useability and usefullness of the site. The name of the site was changed to Oconus.com in November 2000, and the Oconus.com team began working with merchants from all over the United States to increase their awareness of APO FPO shipping and make their sites friendlier for APO FPO customers. The response has been terrific and the team has many ideas on how to improve the site and the overseas experience of our hardworking military families, DOD civilians and contractors.
Languages
English
Address
- 1106 West Park Street
- Livingston, MT 59047 US
Contact
- Oconus-Shopper.com, LLC
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- 406-333-0274
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- Alexa: OconUs.com
