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Post by bazfaz on Jul 25, 2009 14:06:57 GMT
We have today received in the post a letter dated (on the envelope) April 2008.
Can anyone beat that for slow delivery?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 15:38:14 GMT
Well I hope it was good news. Can't say specifically that we could beat that record but, our postal system has never gotten back to any semblance of normalcy since Katrina. It took almost a year and a half to get our periodicals. The bills always managed to make it through. Christmas of 2005 there were many parcels that never arrived.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 16:15:53 GMT
This sort of thing shows up in the news from time to time. I think that a letter from the 1940's was delivered recently -- to the children of the addressee.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 25, 2009 20:49:20 GMT
Well, at least you got your post. We are still waiting !!! With all of the federal budget problems, our mail delivery appears to be slower and slower and they are saying that we might have only 5 days mail delivery instead of 6.
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 25, 2009 21:02:53 GMT
In the heyday of the British postal system Asquith, the Prime Minister, conducted a love affair with letters exchanged and answered with his lover in London during the day. There were six deliveries a day.
I just wonder what happened in our case. It was only a catalogue from a company we were dealing with but the postmark is definitely 16 months ago. Where has the envelope been sitting?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 21:12:11 GMT
We had 3 deliveries a day in Paris until about 6 years ago. I really regretted when that ended.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2009 21:24:07 GMT
Growing up ,we never had home mail delivery,still don't ,in my home town and the village next door. One goes to the Post Office and gets one's mail from the assigned box. They put mail out twice a day. I remember the combination to the box from childhood. I always wondered why in so many of the European novels I read how the letters got delivered so quickly. One I'm reading now is fairly contemporary ,set in London, and the letter exchanges are daily by post. I thought that was surely an oversight on the author's part.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 27, 2009 5:04:36 GMT
In most of Germany local mail needs just one night. It arrives the day after it's posted. There's info on the mail box saying what the latest time is for the letter to be delivered the next day and there's info when the mail was collected from this particular mail box the last time. I found it very efficient.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2009 4:34:32 GMT
Same in France -- except for Baz!
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Post by lagatta on Jul 28, 2009 5:39:23 GMT
Back when I wrote letters, it usually took only two days for my missives to reach Paris, and vice-versa. Faster than the post to other cities here, even within Québec or to nearby Ottawa.
Sometimes I send small paintings to friends in Europe via post. Small parcels may take a day or so longer (this has been to France, to Germany and to Netherlands) but the cost has gone up dramatically and is expected to rise again.
The Italian post was always dreadful. A letter from Paris to Perugia reached me a month later 20 years or so ago. Romans would use the Vatican Post when they could. It has improved somewhat, but is still far from reliable or up to 1st world standards.
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Post by bjd on Jul 28, 2009 7:04:20 GMT
I just got a postcard from Rome -- it took 3 weeks.
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 28, 2009 7:26:19 GMT
Fifteen years ago on a visit to Egypt we were advised to put postcards in the box at Cairo airport as there was then more chance of them getting through. All the cards posted to Britain arrived; none of the cards addressed to France were delivered. Yet, perhaps I should add.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 21, 2010 5:53:41 GMT
I don't know whether this is still the case or not, but when I lived in the US a letter was much more likely to get to its destination quickly than a postcard. I have no idea why this would be -- maybe because the postcard is cheaper to send, so doesn't get priority treatment?
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Post by suzanneschuelke on Feb 7, 2010 15:59:00 GMT
I think most letters we send get to cities in the US within a day within the Midwest and two nationally. Interesting; I have worse luck with letters to Canada then anywhere else. We often mail from Canada to speed it up - but it still is quicker to get a letter to London (UK) than Toronto.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 16:12:07 GMT
Ever since the post office started paying me to receive mail as part of its test panel, I have found the delivery remarkable. Almost every single item has arrived within 24 hours (the foreign mail is tracked only from its arrival at the airport).
I am very happy with the gift vouchers. I am receiving about 1€ for each item that I receive (they send me the vouchers twice a year).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2010 20:11:53 GMT
I know that a postcard I sent to UK from NYC made it there faster than one sent to NOLA.....I don't think the 2 I sent to Viet Nam ever made it........ I used to blame Katrina on our poor post,but no excuse now..... I know our postal carrier as I am so visible in the neighborhood and see her 3 or 4 times a day. She takes good care of me.Bless her heart.
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Post by hwinpp on Feb 8, 2010 7:01:56 GMT
I know that a postcard I sent to UK from NYC made it there faster than one sent to NOLA.....I don't think the 2 I sent to Viet Nam ever made it........ I used to blame Katrina on our poor post,but no excuse now..... I know our postal carrier as I am so visible in the neighborhood and see her 3 or 4 times a day. She takes good care of me.Bless her heart. And I can't give you hope either, Cas
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 8:21:20 GMT
I was frankly surprised when I went to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam that all of the mail that I sent arrived relatively quickly in Europe and North America -- except for my last trip to Vietnam when nothing started arriving until I had returned home (2 week trip). Then everything arrived rapidly and in order but with that two week delay.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 8, 2010 8:54:39 GMT
The post is good, quick and reliable in and out of Phuket.
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