Fastest you have received an envelope from another country?

nickmang · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 03:42:44 am

I received a letter from Norway to Canada in two days by regular air mail. That is a first.

Never seen that.

What about you?

Kloster · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 03:58:47 am

Regi. letter from Bulgaria to Denmark, 2½ day

ikanek · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 04:10:25 am

And from the second end - USA to Czech republic, airmail about 2 months - delayed not due to technical problems or strikes - only some idiot clerk overlooked Czech republic, so it was originally send within a state and then to Czech republic by ship. And this happened to me at least twice.

ANd now the fast service both ways. In the Pre-PayPal time I used to pay for my eBay purchases by sending cash in a registered envelope. So, I sent letter on Monday afternoon - let say 3 p.m. to Denmark and received the items on Friday morning. So, both ways in 4 days.

Spartacus · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 04:18:02 am

Last month... Paid for an item at 3:30pm, was at my door the very next day at 11:00am.

The item was from London to Athens.

Great service there!!!

The Pom · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 04:37:38 am

Paid for on Monday evening UK time.

Arrived at my house Thursday morning.

Item was from Japan.

locakart · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 04:53:26 am

Shortest - Denmark to GB in one day.

Shortest inter-continental - Japan to GB in three days. The place in Japan was Yamaguchi, nowhere near Tokyo.

The most annoying is things like two packages sent from Canada recently, sent by the same person from the same post office at the same time. Package two of two took four days, package one of two took eleven.

I once got a pile of books from Washington DC for my employer in the UK. They were sent in five packages paid for by surface mail as they were for record purposes and not urgent.

One got to the UK in four days, sent by air mail at no extra charge - thank you

. Three rolled in separately in the next two to four weeks via surface mail

. The fifth turned up three months later with transit marks for Caracas clearly stamped on it! :arrow:

That's Caracas in Venezuela. :!:

jumet · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 05:32:24 am

Belgium to Los Angeles - 3 days! Regular mail. Almost fainted. :lol:

(and the stamps were uncancelled) :mrgreen:

gavin-h · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 06:03:44 am

Germany to UK regularly gets here in 2 - 3 days.

I've also received mail from NZ in quick time. The NZ World Cup Winners sheet was a case in point. The match was on the Sunday, the sheet ordered on the Monday, and received here in UK before the end of the week.

BIGANDYN · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 06:29:36 am

Regularly get mail posted in Fiji on a Monday & arrives on a Friday.

One in today from NZ, posted on 18 May...so 4 days

Slowest award goes to Royal Mail (who else??). Birthday card to my dad, posted first class; had 60 miles to travel...took 5 days :-(

Andy

muruk · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 10:26:22 am

My fastest has been Scotland to Australia (small country town) in 3 days.

SMSSLT · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 12:15:26 pm

Seoul, South Korea to Melbourne, Australia.

Paid Sunday night arrived Tuesday afternoon...

DJM · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 12:44:24 pm

I can get a letter sent to me from the UK (2 - 3 days) faster than I can get a similar item from the US (1 to 2 weeks), sometimes even another state in Australia (3 to 4 days).

D.

bathurst stamper · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 15:24:38 pm

Years ago when I was living in the Blue Mountains, I received a letter from the UK on the Monday, having bought the item off eBay on the Friday before. So, 1 business day.

Belti · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 18:30:22 pm

Once I received a regular letter from USA to Malta in just 3 days. Typically, it takes anywhere between 7 to 14 days.

brissypete · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 19:06:00 pm

About two years ago I received a small package from the UK within 5 days and a parcel from Victoria that was also posted the same day arrived at the same time!

Belgian · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 22:56:50 pm

Australia - Belgium in 5 days.

To compare; that same period I send a card from one end to another in Belgium, about 120 km. in distance. It took 7 days

Machaggis52 · **Posted:** Wed May 23, 2012 23:49:14 pm

Three days from Australia.

norvic · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 00:03:49 am

BIGANDYN wrote:

Slowest award goes to Royal Mail (who else??). Birthday card to my dad, posted first class; had 60 miles to travel...took 5 days :-(

Andy

I had a customer last Tuesday who wanted stamps urgently for a birthday present on Friday. I emailed bank details, she paid by telephone banking, I checked the bank online, posted the stamps Tuesday afternoon. Delivered next day.

No big deal but this was a journey longer than many to mainland europe! From Dereham, Norfolk, to St Margarets Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney - according to google maps 666 miles by road. Of course it would have gone by air part of the way, but that's still impressive. I could have charged £6+ more for special delivery next day, but I reckoned it was unnecessary based on usual the performance by Royal Mail that I experience. Others are less fortunate and have cause to complain, but generally it is excellent.

tooler · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 01:57:40 am

From Castlecrag NSW Australia, to Lawrenceville, GA. USA in 4 days.

aethelwulf · **Posted:** Thu May 24, 2012 04:17:09 am

tooler wrote:

From Castlecrag

Castlecrag, we've never heard of that place on here. :lol:

sageyelm · **Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2012 18:40:16 pm

From Taiwan to Illinois USA in 5 1/2 days. In terms of distance that pretty good haha most are a week or longer

norvic · **Posted:** Fri Jun 15, 2012 06:44:37 am

From Dereham Norfolk posted Monday 11 June
Arrived London Ontario Thursday 14 June

Of course the customer would have preferred that I had posted it back on 15 May when he paypalled but I must have been taking a leaf out of Glen's book.

manfaefife · **Posted:** Fri Jun 15, 2012 08:16:12 am

Bought a wrapper on 11th unknown to me the seller was Honza, a stampboards member in the Czech Republic, he posted it on the 12th and I received it here on 14th, that's what I call good service.

Canada stamper · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 05:40:57 am

Got a letter today (June 28) posted from Austria on June 26!

At the other extreme, last month a letter sent from Connecticut USA took OVER A MONTH to get to Toronto Canada!! :!:

Lakatoi 4 · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:33:52 am

I received a letter from Florida that I know was posted on the 8th. June, it was cancelled in Houston on 15th. June (presumably that's an o/seas sorting hub) and I got it on 27th. June (i.e. almost 3 weeks to deliver).

Talk about an abysmal postal service :roll:

On the other side of the coin, I sent a letter from Sydney to Bavaria last Friday and it was received on the following Wednesday 5 days later (including a weekend).

Aust. Post and Deutsche Post well done

Pileit · **Posted:** Fri Jun 29, 2012 11:42:33 am

Sweden to the U.S. on the 3rd day.

Princestamps · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 22:36:16 pm

Blackett New South wales to Auckland New Zealand, sent Friday 15 June, arrived Monday 18 June (Over a weekend and we have no Saturday delivery or uday collection). Normally Australian mail takes at least 5 working days.

Belti · **Posted:** Mon Jul 30, 2012 18:36:42 pm

Someone on ebay left me feedback that she received the items the next day from Malta to the UK.

tacomabob · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 06:39:46 am

From Budapest, Hungary to Wisconsin,USA in four days,
regular mail.

Kloster · **Posted:** Tue Jul 31, 2012 07:05:20 am

A new fast, letter mailed from Australia (To Denmark) on the 18. July, arrived early morning on the 21 July - Another letter mailed later, same time - dosn't looklike it goes the other way around tho

Kloster

pertinax · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2012 13:08:49 pm

I once, and only once, received a letter on a Monday that was posted in the UK on the previous Friday.

Scott

Bort · **Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2012 22:04:08 pm

A British friend once sent me a letter, but in error he typed the word Australia thus: "U S A".

Three days after he posted the letter it arrived at my home.

Coinsearcher83 · **Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2012 00:15:06 am

I think it took 5 days for a parcel I sent to go from the US to the UK.


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