North Cyprus postal system

Chicken


Joined: 29/06/2009
Posts: 190

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 16:36

What is the process for sending/receiving mail to/fron Northern Cyprus and how long does it take?

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 16:38

If you are very lucky then yo might receive some if they ae in brown envolopes. I have yet to receive a card or present in 5 years. I cant answer abot mail going from here I wont risk it. I give mine to customers going back.

michelle3012


Joined: 07/11/2008
Posts: 578

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 18:52

I have sent parcels back to the Uk and they take about 5 days, havnt had a problem yet, My neighbour has a PO Box number and gets mail ok, but he asks anyone posting from UK to send it International Signed for, there is 2kg weight linit but it gets here ok.

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 18:55

My answer would be that you dont receive post in the TRNC

in 5 years of being here, I only ever received letters/cards etc in the first year then after that nothing, except official letters which always manage to get through, I have friends who have post boxes that never get any mail, so you have heard of Bob Hope well we have NO HOPE

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 19:14

I feel the need to defend the TRNC postal system. In more than five years only one postcard (sent from France) did not arrive. Not a bad score when you realise that 1 in 69 suitcases in European airports gets lost - every day!

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 19:26

Ok Hans maybe we can have all our mail delivered to you then, as how come yours arrive and 100's of other people on here dont get so much as a letter in all this time

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 19:35

smithy



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Richard

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 19:43

Msg 6, smithy: "Ok Hans maybe we can have all our mail delivered to you then, as how come yours arrive and 100's of other people on here dont get so much as a letter in all this time"



=> Smithy, as far as I know there are no Greek Cypriots working for the Dutch postal service. How's the situation in the UK?

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 19:53

RE smithy again. Proposal: find two or three Brits with serious complaints. Have them send a letter from the UK to a Dutch friend of mine in Haarlem, Holland. He'll put the closed letters in a new enveloppe with Dutch stamps and send them to my address in TRNC or to addresses you must provide.



Let's see what happens...

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
30/07/2009 19:56

Not sure Hans

As I have been living in the TRNC for the last five years not sure what the postal system in the UK is like now, all I know is that they dont deliver to me. Maybe because I have unusual name (smith) they cant trace me )

Chicken


Joined: 29/06/2009
Posts: 190

Message Posted:
31/07/2009 14:21

We were told that to get a Post Office Box you have to go on 1st January, is this not a Bank Holiday in Northern Cyprus?

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
31/07/2009 16:29

we have never had a problem with the trnc postal system.

in fact the uk system lost our tax returns last year and we got fined, so it cost us big style!

orangekazzie



Joined: 31/07/2007
Posts: 1091

Message Posted:
31/07/2009 16:55

We've had a few items go astray, even things which have been posted using a brown envelope. We have received postcards and greeting cards. I think its pot luck really.



Karen

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
31/07/2009 17:00

Msg 11



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Richard

Aussie


Joined: 17/06/2007
Posts: 657

Message Posted:
31/07/2009 17:48

I have always received all registered mail sent here and also everything I have sent registered has turned up at its destination.



Postcards and non registered mail has however frequently gone astray.



Aussie