Countries with questionable mail service

Hello,

I am just wondering if anybody has experience swapping with these countries and/or live in these countries. I want to know if it is safe to send unregistered letters to any of the countries listed below. Thanks in advance.

Regards

Algeria
Bahrain
Bolivia
Brunei
Chile
Costa Rica
Egypt
Estonia
Honduras
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Israel
Japan
Korea, South
Malaysia
Mexico
Mongolia
Oman
Phillipines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Taiwan
Thailand
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Viet nam

Uk- I have had 3 coins liberated from me Internal post too !

Hello,

I know that no country is 100% safe but I was wondering if most of the time any of the countries listed above are safe to send unregistered.

Regards

I never send un registered in my own country it's not worth the hassle as you never know who you are dealing with !  /!

I've sent and received from a number of those countries just fine.
Bahrain, Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, South Africa, Indonesia, Estonia, Honduras.

I've shipped to Brunei with no problem also.

Hello,

0gramz did you send and recieve to all those countries unregistered.

Regards

yes i've only sent one registered package ever. it really ain't worth the registration unless there's fifty dollars worth of coins in it. i don't think i'd send registered for 10 or 20 dollars worth of coins. it would cost me 15 dollars plus weight just to do that. but if the package would get lost i'd probably send another as long as i felt i wasn't being swindled. you have to watch that now with people with no rating or low rating. that's the new thing - they send coins and you receive, but they say they haven't received, so you send them twice as many (just a hunch but not in all cases). but if it's someone with a good dependable reputation then in actuality the package probably is lost. i think the only one i had a problem with was indonesia once, but it's like that for all island chains - linking their postal systems seem to be an ordeal. but 2nd package went ok. main thing for smaller countries is where it's being sent. if it's in a large city i feel it has a better chance of delivery than out in some small village. so check that also. even check for disaster-stricken areas that will affect it's delivery too. but overall i'm pretty happy with the global postal systems. i haven't had very many issues at all. i feel it's more about the person you're swapping with than who's delivering it.

I had only one problem when sending coins abroad. It was a registered pack to Bosnia. It was returned by the the German post.... I sent it again in a different way and arrived safely.

Hello,

I live in Indonesia, and I did the swap with another member from Canada and it is fine, no broke or lost.  I think it's only 3% lost of package in my country.

It doesn't matter with me if someone's mail took so long to receive to my country, the important is you get your mail arrived :)

Regards,
Adhira

So far no coins was lost to me. So Philippines is a safe country to send coins as long as your packaging is good.

I suppose, related to this is delivery time. What is the longest you have waited for a letter to arrive (where it finally arrived)?

Quote: pileborgI suppose, related to this is delivery time. What is the longest you have waited for a letter to arrive (where it finally arrived)?

Hello,

The longest I waited was about a month. When my letter went to Argentina.

Regards

I can say from personal experience, that international mail in and out of Poland and Italy is never safe. Registered, only means that after 3 months someone will get their money back. Major holidays are to be avoided at all cost, when planning to send anything to these two countries. Envelopes with photos get ripped open.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJdAXnbgpaY

I've successfully completed swaps here in Ireland and also sent coins to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Austria, Sweden. No problems so far.

Quote: elvis123Hello,

I am just wondering if anybody has experience swapping with these countries and/or live in these countries. I want to know if it is safe to send unregistered letters to any of the countries listed below. Thanks in advance.

Regards

Algeria
Bahrain
Bolivia
Brunei
Chile
Costa Rica
Egypt
Estonia
Honduras
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Israel
Japan
Korea, South
Malaysia
Mexico
Mongolia
Oman
Phillipines
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
Taiwan
Thailand
Tunisia
United Arab Emirates
Viet nam

2 successful recent deliveries to Estonia using normal post

I have so far had two letters gone missing, both sent from me to someone else unfortunately.

The first was sent unregistered to Romania, the second registered to Bahrain.

I live in Honduras.. Ive been swapping coins using the mail service (about 20+ times) and none of my packages have been lost. 

Dont expect promptness thought. Its slow but safe. 

pileborgI suppose, related to this is delivery time. What is the longest you have waited for a letter to arrive (where it finally arrived)?

Just over 2 months, UK to Belgium. Would have been faster to pick it up in person and walk/swim back. Another registered letter coming from the UK got lost entirely. A third made in in about 2 weeks. 

 

Of the unregistered letters I posted so far only one got lost, sending from Germany to Spain. 

Also had an empty envelope arrive within Germany with the coins clearly ripped out, though that was from an ebay purchase. And a letter didn't arrive within Belgium, too, though here I suspect it was never sent - also outside Numista.

I have only had two bad experiences. Sent one parcel to Russia (from US) that never arrived. But the reconciliation parcel did arrive.

I also had two parcels from Australia, same sender, where the envelope was ripped open. The contents were missing from the first one, but in the second one, the sender taped the contents to the envelope, so even though the envelope was ripped open, the contents were there. We concluded there must have been a machine that damaged the envelopes during processing and not theft.

But I have had more than 100 other swaps to 30 different countries that worked out just fine.

Feel free to correct me if I am wrong, but I think lost or stolen parcels, while extremely annoying and troublesome, are in the minority of total parcels sent.

adhira_dio457Hello,

I live in Indonesia, and I did the swap with another member from Canada and it is fine, no broke or lost.  I think it's only 3% lost of package in my country. 

It doesn't matter with me if someone's mail took so long to receive to my country, the important is you get your mail arrived :)

Regards,
Adhira

I did swap with Adhira before (2011) and everything went well!

I have swapped with partners in close to 20 different countries. I have had no problems with places like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan (before their current problems) and mail to and from Europe with Thailand is usually very quick. The only problems I have had are 4 packages gone missing in Canada. I will not trade with partners there anymore. I always use registered mail and once mail arrives at the airport in Bangkok, I have always gotten within 72 hours. I have nothing but good things to say about Thai Post.

New Zealand used to have pretty good mail service - but it now totally sucks, & it is getting worse.

 

How do I know? I live here in New Zealand.

 

Aidan.

I agree, I closed my PO BOX in June, but a magazine went there, I asked them to redirect it - it arrived at the PO BOX on June 19th, I finally got it today - August 2nd - that is 43 days to travel around 30km.

 

Standard mail takes 5 or 6 days to cross cities and up to 2 weeks across our country. 20 years ago it was overnight for city mail and 2 or 3 days for national mail.

 

Also standard postage has increased from 50 cents in 2007 to $1 in 2016 and now its $2! They only deliver 3 days a week as well. Most mail now is parcels and even they are slow.

Canada post is certainly not great, but New Zealand seems to be a black hole. I sent a letter in Nov 2022 which never arrived at its destination and then sent a second one as a replacement in early June which also never arrived. 

 

i Have found that it’s not worth exchanging anymore for the hassle to pack and send across, plus the obscene postage fees, and as a sour cherry on the top, a completely unreliable cross-border delivery chain. Easier to buy from a dealer using paypal and simply dispute the transaction if one doesn’t get the coins as promised. 

Sweden sometimes is extremely slow.