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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
I'm not too sure where I should have posted this topic about mail so opted for this World coins section. How long should or could it take for a small package to arrive in SE BC Canada from Istanbul, Turkey? A package was mailed out from Istanbul about Feb 2nd ... and its now March 19th and it hasn't showed up yet. Should I be concerned it went astray? I have absolutely NO concerns that it wasn't mailed because the person would never do that to anyone :)  I'm just wondering if I should worry NOW or give it a while yet. Thanks |
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Greece
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The package 99% have lost.Mail something to North America from Balkans take 10-12 woking days,no more.
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Pillar of the Community
 Canada
864 Posts |
Well thats a really depressing idea to think maybe its gone missing :(
It sometimes takes 3 or so weeks for me to get mail here from the USA. Up to a week and a half or more to get mail here from Ontario. Domestic mail (within Canada to Canada points) Sometimes takes about 10 days to get mail here from my services provider in Calgary, which is only about 5 hours drive from here. Mail services seem slow, frustrating, or unpredictable here to me.
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United Kingdom
2490 Posts |
Unfortunately, using the Canadian postal services seems to be the triumph of hope over experience. On the other hand, last weekend I sold a coin to New Zealand; posted it on Monday and received feedback yesterday (Friday).
That I find amazing.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
I don't understand why getting mail here can be so darned slow, although I learned that all mail coming in to BC MUST go to Vancouver first, then its my understanding its resorted there on the next weekend, then resent out to whatever BC community its destined for.
Makes me think if mail gets to Vancouver on a Monday, then not sorted til the coming weekend for sending out next mail business day, wow, that adds a week delay being hung up in vancouver. Crazy.
Re my mail from Istanbul not arrived yet, I hope its just a case of just not arrived yet. I hope the other tenants or guests didn't abscond with it. Thats always my first worry. Bubble or big envelopes always stick way out of my mailbox on the outside of the building.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
645 Posts |
Just received 2 books from Istanbul. Both registered, the first 9 weeks, the second 4 weeks.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
Well, it's about 6 and a half weeks since it was mailed. Its probably just slow to get here (I'm wishing LOL)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2661 Posts |
Mine took over 6 weeks. U.S customs had it for a while, a long while. They open it up, inspected it and resealed it nicely. Come to think of it, I believe it was more like eight weeks. If you supposed to be getting something from Molydeii, no worries he is good for it and I will vouch for him myself.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
1733 Posts |
Mail is slow in Canada specifically when... the item cannot be sorted by machine or barscan. Anything that requires hand sorting adds a week minimum... 9 days for an oversized envelope from me to Hunstville (about 200 miles) ... I can walk there faster than that......
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
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. |
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I sent a small flat envelope from Australia to Turkey on Dec 10, 2010. It was delivered back to me on Mar 16, marked with a sticker indicating the addressee had moved, but in actual fact, he hasn't moved and the address was 100% correct. The contents are intact, but one stamp was missing from the envelope. Very strange!
A couple years ago, a parcel for me left Canada for Australia and ended up traveling via Austria but at least it did eventually get here.
life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
3831 Posts |
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. |
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Thailand
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If the Turkish postal service is anything like the one in Thailand then the only service I would trust is an internationally recognised courier service.
I had untold problems with both incoming and outgoing mail when I first got here so now it has to be DHL (we have UPS available here also) for everything. More expensive but it's trackable, quicker (unless Tom Hanks happens to be on the plane) and it does arrive.
Edited by thai-vic
03/21/2011 05:04 am
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Rest in Peace
United States
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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.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
864 Posts |
If I remember and understood correctly what I read a while back, Canada Post was in doo-doo with the postal workers because of sometimes when a postal carrier was off sick or off on holidays, the post office held onto all mail. When the workers got back to work they were overwhelmed with the backlog of mail building and waiting for them to get back to work and deliver. The post office/s did NOT hire a fill-in mail carrier to deliver, which they should have had someone else deliver it. Postees and customers were understandably mad about this. Apparently it's [illegal to deliberately withhold delivery[/b] (or something like that)
I was shocked to read that news that rather than hiring fill-in delivery people, the community post office just hung onto mail.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
I once had a quarter take 4 weeks to get here from Canada.But don't worry,it won't help anything.
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Posted 03/19/2011 6:54 pm
