I probably won't be the first one nor the last one with a letter gone missing. Where do they go? Who lays their hands on them? In this case it just got lost for a while ...
It started its trip on 7/2 in Germany (Munich) with a clear address on it, but I guess someone (or something?) misread the country and it did not take off to Estonia, but to some far far away country. I think my swap partner has a very neat writing, but where do you think it could have gone too? (edit: tip - it only got to Estonia on 20/3 !)
Have a look at the written "Estonia" and take a guess! Also feel free to add your own story of an envelope travelling around the world.
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Apparently, according to the clerks at the post office, Ethiopia quite often seems to be the destination of wrongly delivered letters sent to Estonia. But not this time ... and Eritrea either.
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Very nice one, but no. Then I would have expected it to get back on track a bit faster.
By the way, I've met quite a few Spaniards referring to Estonia (the same in English and Spanish) as "Stonia" in English, as they are so used to having to leave out the E in words with SP or ST (España/Spain, Estadio/Stadium, Stop (pronounced as estop), ...).
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
Quote: "ashlobo"I’m going to take an even wilder guess and say East Timor or eastern Caribbean stages
eitherways, im keen to know what the answer is!
Nope ...
In fact I'm not really sure myself ... the only thing I understand on the stamp is the date (15-2-2018). The rest is in Arabic, so I'll need some assistance to confirm my own guess ... extra clue! The official language is Arabic.
Just call me Bram
No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
Quote: "ashlobo"I’m going to take an even wilder guess and say East Timor or eastern Caribbean stages
eitherways, im keen to know what the answer is!
Nope ...
In fact I'm not really sure myself ... the only thing I understand on the stamp is the date (15-2-2018). The rest is in Arabic, so I'll need some assistance to confirm my own guess ... extra clue! The official language is Arabic.
The oddest letter I sent that took the long way around the world was back when I exchanged stamps with collectors around the world. My letter was addressed to Indonesia and took a very long time to be delivered. This was years ago so I cannot remember what city I sent to but probably Jakarta. My friend in Indonesia said the letter was backstamped for a post office in Greenland. No way it needed a stopover in Greenland on the way to Indonesia from the USA. Unless the US Postal Service thought it needed a good chill before heading to tropical Indonesia.
Quote: "BramVB"Nope ...
In fact I'm not really sure myself ... the only thing I understand on the stamp is the date (15-2-2018). The rest is in Arabic, so I'll need some assistance to confirm my own guess ... extra clue! The official language is Arabic.
Are you sure it's Arabic? Could it be another language written with the Arabic script -- Urdu, Farsi, etc.?
I have to admit I only recognized the script as Arabic ... So now to all with any knowledge of Arabic script, where did it go???
My guess would be Egypt, with the S read as a G and the T as an I ... Egionia ...
The two stamps:
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Letters from Serbia to Latvia goes through Lebanon on regular basis. "Goes through" means that they are sent to Beirut, than returns to Belgrade and than goes to the correct destination. It does not happen with other countries, except Kosovo, but in that case sender used Serbian post and sent from Serbian town in Kosovo. I think in Belgrade international letters sorting facility works one person, who mixes Latvia with Lebanon and still noone explained him the difference.
And at least two letters per year from Germany is going to miss for few months and than appears with a special stamp "MISSENT TO THAILAND". I believe they missends letters to Thailand quite often, if someone even ordered special stamp for it.
So let's just blame the German post here ... letters to Latvia via Thailand is also quite a feat! ;)
Thanks Yosufharun for your transcription and translation !!!
I guess we'll never know where my letter went, as "Airmail" is a more likely word than "Al-Jawf" in the middle of Saudi-Arabia. Pretty weird that that stamp has no name of (likely) city or country. So unless somebody still recognises the type of the stamp, we're at a dead end.
Your own stories of travelling letters still welcome here :-)
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No new swaps for the moment, still too many half-ongoing swaps to clean up!
In the middle of last year, I posted some coins to a collector from the UK to ITALY, but it took nearly four weeks to arrive after spending some time in INDONESIA.
Easy mistake, I suppose. It did arrive in tact and untouched.
