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Oct 7, 2021 14:11:41 GMT
Post by eefa on Oct 7, 2021 14:11:41 GMT
I received a letter on Tuesday(Oct 5th) from Queensland Australia. The postmark on the envelope is July 23rd!
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Oct 7, 2021 20:41:01 GMT
Post by sunshine2170 on Oct 7, 2021 20:41:01 GMT
I received a letter on Tuesday(Oct 5th) from Queensland Australia. The postmark on the envelope is July 23rd! Is that mine from the July 5 questions? That is a long journey, wonder how many countries it had to go through. See you'll all eventually get mine in the next millenium lol
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Oct 9, 2021 11:13:57 GMT
Post by eefa on Oct 9, 2021 11:13:57 GMT
I received a letter on Tuesday(Oct 5th) from Queensland Australia. The postmark on the envelope is July 23rd! Is that mine from the July 5 questions? That is a long journey, wonder how many countries it had to go through. See you'll all eventually get mine in the next millenium lol It could well be. I haven't read it yet as I don't read my letters until I'm going to reply to them... i'll have to dig through the 5 questions archive to see what my questions actually were
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Oct 11, 2021 20:17:04 GMT
Post by ginny on Oct 11, 2021 20:17:04 GMT
Is that mine from the July 5 questions? That is a long journey, wonder how many countries it had to go through. See you'll all eventually get mine in the next millenium lol It could well be. I haven't read it yet as I don't read my letters until I'm going to reply to them... i'll have to dig through the 5 questions archive to see what my questions actually were That's an interesting concept, eefa. Aren't you afraid you might miss out on something important, like a penpal telling you they have lost a dear one (parents, spouse, child) and you don't react in appropriate time? That would petrify me. I have unfortunately have had my share of bad news over the year (plus had to share some not so great news myself only recently), and I'd never forgive myself if I didn't send condolences or whatever might be appropriate.
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Oct 12, 2021 8:11:26 GMT
Post by sunshine2170 on Oct 12, 2021 8:11:26 GMT
It could well be. I haven't read it yet as I don't read my letters until I'm going to reply to them... i'll have to dig through the 5 questions archive to see what my questions actually were You are well disciplined. I can hardly wait to read and normally do that in the car as soon as I have collected the mail from the post office.
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Oct 18, 2021 8:14:52 GMT
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Post by katiel on Oct 18, 2021 8:14:52 GMT
Nooooooooooooo! A birthday card that I mailed to Australia on September 27th, just bounced back to my mailbox as undeliverable because mail has been suspended. It has another sticker on the back that says I can ask for a refund for my stamp. I thought regular letters could still go through!
…or maybe if they are too full (received too many letters, not enough flights) they send it back? The actual letter I mailed to the same person in Australia on the same day didn’t come back… maybe that one made it through? Or maybe that one will bounce back to my mailbox tomorrow.
This is frustrating and sad. If ALL mail truly is suspended, to Australia/NZ, then this will just be the first of several letters bouncing back to me.
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Oct 18, 2021 13:19:26 GMT
Post by Mia on Oct 18, 2021 13:19:26 GMT
Aww, is post from Australia making it to the US? (I shall go look on Postcrossing - someone in the US received a postcard from Australia in 13 days this month).
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Oct 18, 2021 13:26:09 GMT
Post by ginny on Oct 18, 2021 13:26:09 GMT
Nooooooooooooo! A birthday card that I mailed to Australia on September 27th, just bounced back to my mailbox as undeliverable because mail has been suspended. It has another sticker on the back that says I can ask for a refund for my stamp. I thought regular letters could still go through! …or maybe if they are too full (received too many letters, not enough flights) they send it back? The actual letter I mailed to the same person in Australia on the same day didn’t come back… maybe that one made it through? Or maybe that one will bounce back to my mailbox tomorrow. This is frustrating and sad. If ALL mail truly is suspended, to Australia/NZ, then this will just be the first of several letters bouncing back to me. Mail to Australia and New Zealand is labeled as 'restricted' here. That means there are limited capacities, mail will take considerably longer to reach its destination and in some cases, it might get returned to the sender
I posted something to New Caledonia the other day without checking, and the postal website here says it's currently not possible to send anything to that destination. The person I sent it to said I should put 'France' on the envelope along with the French postcode as the islands are part of France, and probably 'avoiding' the notion 'New Caledonia' would help the letter to slip through. I'm not holding my breath, though...
Edit: I just checked... Mail to the US and Canada is also labeled as 'restricted' on the postal website. I have received letters from North America recently, and the few that I wrote (I'm going through a rough patch and hence haven't been writing as many letters as usually) didn't bounce back, either. Most of them have arrived within a sensible time span.
Bottom line: You just don't know
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Oct 18, 2021 13:32:51 GMT
Post by Mia on Oct 18, 2021 13:32:51 GMT
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Oct 18, 2021 13:35:00 GMT
Post by Mia on Oct 18, 2021 13:35:00 GMT
Royal Mail tends to hold mail.... if there is a problem with getting it to affected countries (be it covid, flight restrictions, strikes...).
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Oct 18, 2021 14:50:16 GMT
Post by allanorn on Oct 18, 2021 14:50:16 GMT
Nooooooooooooo! A birthday card that I mailed to Australia on September 27th, just bounced back to my mailbox as undeliverable because mail has been suspended. It has another sticker on the back that says I can ask for a refund for my stamp. I thought regular letters could still go through! …or maybe if they are too full (received too many letters, not enough flights) they send it back? The actual letter I mailed to the same person in Australia on the same day didn’t come back… maybe that one made it through? Or maybe that one will bounce back to my mailbox tomorrow. This is frustrating and sad. If ALL mail truly is suspended, to Australia/NZ, then this will just be the first of several letters bouncing back to me. about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htmLetter should have gone through. Probably a sorter rejecting everything. Follow the instructions from USPS.
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Oct 18, 2021 15:23:50 GMT
Post by InsomniaQueen on Oct 18, 2021 15:23:50 GMT
I haven't had anything I've mailed out to Australia rejected - at least not yet as far as I know - and Dallas rejects mail at the slightest provocation. (Calligraphy, mail art that isn't completely flat, zip code isn't written out boldly enough, tape on the envelope has a wrinkle - I kid you not, they will send it right back - AFTER canceling the postage so that you have to pay for it again.)
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Oct 18, 2021 15:51:40 GMT
Post by ginny on Oct 18, 2021 15:51:40 GMT
I haven't had anything I've mailed out to Australia rejected - at least not yet as far as I know - and Dallas rejects mail at the slightest provocation. (Calligraphy, mail art that isn't completely flat, zip code isn't written out boldly enough, tape on the envelope has a wrinkle - I kid you not, they will send it right back - AFTER canceling the postage so that you have to pay for it again.)That's pretty nasty. Here, when they return something to you because there's not enough postage on the envelope or whatever other reason, they add a two-sectioned sticker on the envelope - you can pull off the bigger part of it (that says why your letter was rejected), and the smaller segment stays on the envelope, indicating that the cancelled stamps are still good. So, you add the missing stamp (or fix the address, write out the postcode or whatever it is that they are fussy about) and can drop the letter into the mailbox again.
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Oct 18, 2021 15:55:40 GMT
Post by InsomniaQueen on Oct 18, 2021 15:55:40 GMT
ginny, I often have no idea why they rejected the letter. My guess is that whatever the sorting machine rejects gets sent back whether it is a problem with the machine or not. I've given up being irritated by it. I just stick it in another envelope and mail it again.
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Post by Gary S on Oct 18, 2021 16:38:04 GMT
Perhaps they hope folks will stick new postage on the letters but I just put whatever value they claim I'm short on the envelope with the other cancelled stamps and drop it back into the mail. I took in the first letter it happened on to the clerk at the Checotah PO and that's what he told me to do in the future if it ever happened again. I've done it several times since then without taking it to a clerk and the letter gets through with no problem even with it already having a cancellation mark applied.
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