the safest way is to ask your family/friends to help you. You can buy your stuff on Taobao (you need to open an account and let them to transfer RMB to your account if you can not pay directly from CA) and ask seller to ship to your family's/friends' home. And then you need to find a shipping agent on Taobao, ask your family/friends to contact the agent directly. Normally the agent can pick up package directly. Your family or firends can pay cash if they want, or you can pay the agent through Zhifubao. I got lots of package by this way (normally by sea, much cheaper than by EMS and little chance to be taxed). You have to chose a good agent with many stars or crowns. And you have to figure out how to pay your family or friends (I did it by west union). Don't forget to thank them as they really do your a favour (it's time consuming to receiving your stuff, checking quality, contacting shipping agent and packaging).