Mail From Turkey To Canada How Long?

The sender has 200000000000 % integrity that I don't question at all for even a mili-second ]:)]

I know it's the mail routing, Murphy's Law, or an absconder. After reading the comments here I'm leaning towards mail routing for now. Going through many places including customs and rerouting from Vancouver.

All packages are delayed simply because of security issues. It got worse from December last year and everything from everywhere around the world (except coming from other parts of the states in Australia) takes at least a whole month. To be fair to the ebay sellers that I buy from online, I judge from the dating of the postage stamp - if it's within 3-5 days after I paid, I give it an instant 5. Not too fair to judge it on postage times as that's way beyond their control.

My experience with sending approximately 900 first-class pieces of mail per year from the central U. S. to Canada is that mail to Canada takes longer than almost anywhere else in the world, especially when Canadian postal workers go on strike, which is often. There are few places on the border where mail crosses, for starters, and I can only imagine how a "suspicious" package from Turkey would be treated. Week after week, first-class mail to London and other parts of Great Britain arrived at the destinations 2-3 days quicker than to destinations in Canada, according to feedback I received.

Having stated all that ... I suspect that the package is lost, or being returned to molydeii. Returned mail can take months to make the return trip.

I once had a quarter take 4 weeks to get here from Canada.But don't worry,it won't help anything.

Hey Dottir.. hey guys... I am here.
First of all, don't worry Dottir, if that one doesn't turn out, I'll make a new package and mail it to you registered this time. It was a medium sized brown cardboard envelope that was taped and secured. There was nothing about 30-40 coins inside it.
However, regarding is posting to Canada, I have to say it's the country where I have experienced most problems. earlier in 2009, I sold an item to Canada from ebay and mailed it via registered mail. To this day, I haven't still heard from it, neither it was returned, the tracking says it's released from customs for distribution, since roughly about 10 days from the original posting date. I refunded the ebay buyer.
I've traded with some Canadian users in out community too. I remember two envelopes going to the same address got lost, plus one very recently come back to my address saying "rejected" on it. Neither of those were registered. I re-mailed the latter one registered. Haven't heard from it still, yet it has been about a week since I mailed it.
I mail to the UK, Australia and the US from times to times. As much as I remember, I experienced only one loss to the USA around Christmas time this year. Also, two of the incoming mail to me got lost, one was a small letter-sized envelope from Kansas to here, and the latter is a bigger box, whom it could still turn out, as it has been about a month that it has been mailed. For the UK and Australia, thanks to God I haven't experienced any single loss, both registered and unregistered.

Canada is a beautiful country, I had been there like a lifetime ago (to Vancouver). However, maybe it is because the country is huge, maybe it is because the postal workers have a different operating system than Turkey, USA, Australia or UK, somehow I always am unlucky when posting/receiving to and from Canada. After all, only time I experienced a registered mail lost and not returned to sender was with Post Canada. Maybe I am doing something wrong, maybe the Post Canada is. I honestly do not know.

Back in 2005/2006, I had a collector friend (who has passed away now) living in BC, Canada. For about every month, we mail to each other. Between those dates, I think I mailed him somewhere about 10 and he mailed me about 15 different packages with no losses. Neither of those packages were registered too.

One last word, I made that package to Dottir, it wasn't a trade or a sell. There were some doubles among my collection which needed a new home. It's still fine, mail losses can happen (however, the rate seems to increase to me, specially when distance is involved) I will be more than happy to make another package, bigger this time, will register and book it, get the receipt and the number, and mail to Dottir, as soon as possible.

@Moly, last year you needed more time to get me a postacard, so this year I started the contest early just for you... get one out to me please :)

I agree with Moly, Canada Post is annoying, but I've noticed a trend I can share. Anything that has to be manually sorted has a greater chance of loss or delay. If it can go into a standard envelope with standard and clear (machine readable) postal codes it gets places faster. There's just so many square miles of Geography and so few posties that I sometimes despair sending my non standard over sized envelopes even a few hundred miles because it takes so blasted long. Anything low value US bound I've been using US light packet (2.67 including GST) and it goes quick because it's a printed label with a scannable bar code and good for up to 450 grams or so. Anyhow, it's annoying to deal with them some days but they're the only game in town.

BTW, parcels I am always really happy with the delivery time... they've not lost one yet and they always get there quick. They have a really good logistics department on the parcels side. Letter mail ...not so much.

Well, I'll be darned! The package of coins from Molydeii was nicely tucked completely inside my mailbox today! Perfect fit and didn't protrude.

IT'S ARRIVED!

I'll have to look at them later as am in a rush out the door, but just wanted to let everyone know that my mail from Turkey IS HERE! And it only took 49 days (I think 49! !) I'm so stoked to have a look at them when I get back. Thank you Molydeii! (I sent you an email!)

PS: For the record, 0nly 16 coins were in the package, in 3 small grip lock baggies. 2 of the baggies have the bottoms cut so coins fell out as I opened the package and removed the tape holding them all down inside the package. There's a discrepancy, obviously, in 16 coins getting here when 30 to 40 were sent. Makes me wonder about the delay and if someone held onto the package a while after taking some, well MANY coins for themselves. Strange hey? Molydeii will verify with me later what should have been in the package but my impression this minute is that someone messed with the package when it was enroute, helped themselves to some coins, and sent it on its way though the mail again, OR put it BACK in my mailbox? Can't know what happened though :(

I feel very badly for Molydeii if some dishonest idiot interfered with his package.