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Post by distractedmom on Jan 23, 2017 22:56:25 GMT
Last Friday a letter arrived that was mailed from South Africa on August 23rd last year. That's impressive!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 1:43:51 GMT
I mailed postcards from Cuba and India and some never arrived. Otherwise, I've had one cheque sent within Canada disappear and 2 outgoing letters to Turkey. My penfriend in Turkey moved to The Netherlands shortly thereafter so we resumed an uninterrupted correspondence after that.
Oh, I also tried to receive 4 letters in India and one did not arrive within the 4 month window but the other 3 arrived safely. And apparently there has been a letter traveling to me from Spain, but 3 months and counting and it's nowhere to be seen.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 8:56:46 GMT
I mailed postcards from Cuba and India and some never arrived. India is notorious for lost letters. Russia's far east / Siberia has got issues, too. I heard from other penpals that they only exchange e-mail with their friends in India.
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Post by radellaf on Mar 17, 2018 19:09:14 GMT
I answered 1, for the one that got soaked in Australia. Would have been OK if it was in ballpoint as it _was_ delivered.
I don't know if the one I sent to India in October, with a half ounce or so of stamps inside, got lost or was just never replied to (aviwire maybe?). Or got flagged somehow for having non-letter stuff in it.
The only time I really knew about lost mail was when I was regularly mailing letters or cassette audioletters to a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. Maybe 10% didn't make it. I think I _did_ dub the tapes before sending, though. Was 1995 or so.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2018 0:22:31 GMT
I mailed postcards from Cuba and India and some never arrived. India is notorious for lost letters. Russia's far east / Siberia has got issues, too. I heard from other penpals that they only exchange e-mail with their friends in India. Honestly even sending letters with India Post can be quite difficult. In the larger post offices like Mysore & Mumbai they often sent me to multiple counters. In Mysore I was instructed to go to one counter, a lady there weighed the letters and wrote the cost in pencil on the envelope, then I went to a desk in a little side room where a man flipped through a large book to retrieve the low denomination postage to correctly tally my needed postage of odd numbers like 27 or 62 rupee. Then I was sent to a desk back in the main hall to affix my postage with paste. Finally, I returned to the first lady at the first desk and she took my mail to be sent. All of this took about 45 minutes, first thing in the morning and only 1 other customer present. When I sent postcards, which I did from 6 or 7 different states, I was alternately told 20, 30 or 40 rupees each. Once while being charged only 20 rupee per postcard, I asked if different states had different rates, no, I was assured all states had the same rate and that 20 was surely enough for an international postcard. I can't say I tracked which postcards arrived & how much postage they had... and while I would be tempted to say maybe someone was pocketing those extra rupees when I paid 40 each for 10 postcards... I affixed all the stamps myself so the money must have gone in the til! Anyway, there you have some of my postal adventures in India. Should you ever find yourself in Mumbai I can advise you on how to take a self-directed tour of the main post office and finish with a view from the roof
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