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Reliability of Postal Services in Thailand
Mid December last year, I delivered about 30 letters to the Post Office at the Mall
in Nakhorn-Ratchasima to be send to several people around the world. These letters contained Postcards or Calendars with Seasons Greetings. Last week, I had a phone call from my daughter in Belgium, asking if something happened to me because she didn't received a Seasons Greetings letter. In the same week, I received different calls and emails from friends and family and even bussiness partners with the same worry as they didn't received a letter from me. So, it became clear that these letters has never seen the main Post Office. The last 3 years I have been travelling all over Asia. I have send many postcards to my family and friends from different countries in Asia, and all these cards did arrived at destination without any problem. But for some reason, Thailand isn't able to provide a thrustworthy Postal Service. It is a shame that a country like Thailand who wants to profile themselves to the outside world as highly sophisticated and as the "Number 1" in everything they do, has such a bad and unreliable Postal Service. From now on, I will have to send every letter with a required "signature of collector". Altough this is not a guarantee that the Postal Service in Thailand will improve their reliability. Carlos |
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All the parcels and letters my wife has sent to me in Australia from thailand have arrived ok...but she sends them all by registered post.....and all the mail I have sent to thailand has arrived......bar one. Unfortunately I decided to send $150 inside a card to bangkok...... Sigh.....live and learn! Dick Originally posted by Carlos Mid December last year, I delivered about 30 letters to the Post Office at the Mall in Nakhorn-Ratchasima to be send to several people around the world. These letters contained Postcards or Calendars with Seasons Greetings. Last week, I had a phone call from my daughter in Belgium, asking if something happened to me because she didn't received a Seasons Greetings letter. In the same week, I received different calls and emails from friends and family and even bussiness partners with the same worry as they didn't received a letter from me. So, it became clear that these letters has never seen the main Post Office. The last 3 years I have been travelling all over Asia. I have send many postcards to my family and friends from different countries in Asia, and all these cards did arrived at destination without any problem. But for some reason, Thailand isn't able to provide a thrustworthy Postal Service. It is a shame that a country like Thailand who wants to profile themselves to the outside world as highly sophisticated and as the "Number 1" in everything they do, has such a bad and unreliable Postal Service. From now on, I will have to send every letter with a required "signature of collector". Altough this is not a guarantee that the Postal Service in Thailand will improve their reliability. Carlos -- Posted via http://britishexpats.com |
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"Carlos" wrote in message ...
Mid December last year, I delivered about 30 letters to the Post Office at the Mall in Nakhorn-Ratchasima to be send to several people around the world. These letters contained Postcards or Calendars with Seasons Greetings. Last week, I had a phone call from my daughter in Belgium, asking if something happened to me because she didn't received a Seasons Greetings letter. In the same week, I received different calls and emails from friends and family and even bussiness partners with the same worry as they didn't received a letter from me. So, it became clear that these letters has never seen the main Post Office. The last 3 years I have been travelling all over Asia. I have send many postcards to my family and friends from different countries in Asia, and all these cards did arrived at destination without any problem. But for some reason, Thailand isn't able to provide a thrustworthy Postal Service. It is a shame that a country like Thailand who wants to profile themselves to the outside world as highly sophisticated and as the "Number 1" in everything they do, has such a bad and unreliable Postal Service. From now on, I will have to send every letter with a required "signature of collector". Altough this is not a guarantee that the Postal Service in Thailand will improve their reliability. Carlos FWIW, between Nov 2001-April 2002, I sent _at least_ 100 postcards and a few letters from Bangkok to various places around the world. Maybe 50% reached their final destination, and of those, some took months to arrive. There was no particular order to whether or not they'd make it. I tried posting from different places, different times. I posted anywhere from 5-10 every couple of weeks. No clear pattern. I had no trouble receiving mail in Bangkok - at least from those who told me they'd sent some. I expected the same again, but between Nov 2002-April 2003, June 2003-Oct 2003, I sent another 200 or so post cards and letters. AFAIK ALL were received. Most within 7-12 days. At least 90% of these were all sent from Mae Sot, Tak Province, rather than Bangkok. I was just hoping the mail service had improved in that time, but I guess not.... |
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between Nov 2002-April 2003, June
2003-Oct 2003, I sent another 200 or so post cards and letters. You must have spent nearly all your time there writing them We have sent parcels with all kinds of gear, souvenirs, clothes, tent, stove, books, etc., several times from Bangkok and have never had the slightest problem. In fact compared to the postal services in other countries it is very smooth and efficient. Per http://lowdin.nu |
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"Per Löwdin" wrote in message ... between Nov 2002-April 2003, June 2003-Oct 2003, I sent another 200 or so post cards and letters. You must have spent nearly all your time there writing them We have sent parcels with all kinds of gear, souvenirs, clothes, tent, stove, books, etc., several times from Bangkok and have never had the slightest problem. In fact compared to the postal services in other countries it is very smooth and efficient. Which countries? |
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"Per Löwdin" wrote in message ...
between Nov 2002-April 2003, June 2003-Oct 2003, I sent another 200 or so post cards and letters. You must have spent nearly all your time there writing them I was there working, and enjoyed many evenings having a meal and a drink on my own, which I often used to write postcards (in holiday time they were my "Christmas cards"). Takes about 5 mins max. per card. I like sending them, the people I send them to like getting them . |
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Strange, I never ever had any problem with Thai mail. Over the years,
I sent dozens of large boxes full of stuff, hundreds and hundreds of postcards, dozens of letters,... and to my knowledge nothing ever went missing. Maybe you just had a stroke of bad luck at the NR post office. Maybe they had some psycho mail officer burning foreigner's letters or something, or taking them home because he likes the incomprehensible writing. Kris On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:51:11 +0700, "Carlos" wrote: Mid December last year, I delivered about 30 letters to the Post Office at the Mall in Nakhorn-Ratchasima to be send to several people around the world. These letters contained Postcards or Calendars with Seasons Greetings. Last week, I had a phone call from my daughter in Belgium, asking if something happened to me because she didn't received a Seasons Greetings letter. In the same week, I received different calls and emails from friends and family and even bussiness partners with the same worry as they didn't received a letter from me. So, it became clear that these letters has never seen the main Post Office. The last 3 years I have been travelling all over Asia. I have send many postcards to my family and friends from different countries in Asia, and all these cards did arrived at destination without any problem. But for some reason, Thailand isn't able to provide a thrustworthy Postal Service. It is a shame that a country like Thailand who wants to profile themselves to the outside world as highly sophisticated and as the "Number 1" in everything they do, has such a bad and unreliable Postal Service. From now on, I will have to send every letter with a required "signature of collector". Altough this is not a guarantee that the Postal Service in Thailand will improve their reliability. Carlos |
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"Markku Grönroos" wrote in message ...
And Thailand is merely the first steps on the path to the receiver. Perhaps the fault has occurred outside the kingdom. One of our colleagues sent a postcard from Rome, Italy dated on 29.12.2003, it arrived in it's destination last week... That's only a few weeks, not *that* long for a postcard. 5 months is, IMO, a long time for a postcard to reach it's destination . I usually dated all my postcards. My father called me in May of 2002 to tell me he received the postcard I'd sent in December of 2001. At least he received it... I actually sent a letter which was included some rather sensitive topics that was never received. Had it been, the course of things may have been different...in the end I am not sure I am glad Thai mail lost it or not ;-) I would have thought, in my case, that the fault lay (lie?) outside the Kingdom, but I sent cards to quite a few countries, and there was no obvious pattern. Fortunately, posting outside Bangkok seemed to solve that problem in subsequent mailings. |
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Which countries? Nepal, India, Hongkong, Lao, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Thai postal service is reknowned for being efficient. Does not imply that it can´t fail at times. Per |
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