Is any ones elses post reaching there post box?

ocean



Joined: 20/08/2009
Posts: 371

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 10:22

Is any ones elses post reaching there post box?

biglugs


Joined: 02/10/2008
Posts: 157

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 10:28

Yes,i get mail every month,been here 3 years and not one gone missing

ocean



Joined: 20/08/2009
Posts: 371

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 10:34

one of mine has gone missing so upset my friend sent me few bits for my daughter clothes and its been one month and no sign

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 10:35

Been here 5 years and could count on ONE hand how many letters have got through and then only Official letters as they know no money is in them.

ocean



Joined: 20/08/2009
Posts: 371

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 10:40

so smithy you have had post missing

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 10:40

In more than 5 years one postcard to us went missing, but it was sent from France to TRNC. Not one problem with mail from Holland.

ocean



Joined: 20/08/2009
Posts: 371

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 10:42

himm my friend sent it when there was a strike in the uk i have given up hope on it now

billyboy1


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 11:56

4 weeks ago i posted from the Uk a letter to mum in Karsiyaka, she has a post box. got there in 2 weeks



at the same time i posted a letter to my grandmother, who lives in girne and has done for the past 15 years, so address is on maps.....only just got there yesterday......



both letters were in brown envelopes and with typed address labels.....



You just can never tell



I do not do packages any more, as they have gone missing, so wait til i see my family for b day and xmas pressies etc

ocean



Joined: 20/08/2009
Posts: 371

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 12:37

so how long did it take to get to your grandmother?? billyboy

Earlybird


Joined: 28/04/2009
Posts: 816

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 13:18

Not very lucky I am afraid and thinking of not paying for the post box next year. I even sent myself a letter when I was in the UK 6 months ago....it never arrived!

everon


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 956

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 13:40

we have a PO box in Girne', no post for approx 2yrs!! no xmas cards, birthday cards etc, all sent in brown envelopes, with Mercin 10 etc

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 13:58

we have given up 'expecting' post as cards etc never arrive however we hang on to our box in the hope that it will improve in the future.



anyone got any further news on the brs posting experiment?

boerboel


Joined: 02/05/2009
Posts: 290

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 14:24

We also have a PO box in Girne, in 2 yrs can count on one hand how much post we have had, never get birthday cards etc (all addressed correctly with Mersin 10) but yes, like many others always get the TAX letters.

Krin52


Joined: 25/08/2008
Posts: 419

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 16:05

There was an article on the front page of LAST Saturday's Cyprus Today about the problem........



No real solution offered though, from what I could see. And it only referred to mail from the U.K., not from anywhere else in the world.

billyboy1


Joined: 01/06/2009
Posts: 590

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 16:13

ocean -message 9



I posted the letters 4 weeks ago,



mum got hers in 2 weeks



nan got hers yesterday. 4 weeks



have since the 1st letter to my nan posted a further 2 ....she may get them by christmas if she is lucky...



have also posted one of them as a registered which has to be signed for...so we shall see what happens

metin


Joined: 08/09/2008
Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 17:08

Guess I'm one of the lucky ones then........I have a post box in Karaoglanoglu. In 4 yrs I've lost one parcel and 2 cards.

Everything else comes through without a hitch.......from all over the world.

gollylady


Joined: 17/06/2009
Posts: 36

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 18:18

just had a letter from inland rev .it arrived in girne on the 24th of sept,catolkoy p,office on the 25th of sept

it then took 3 weeks to be delivered to my house.

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
17/10/2009 22:05

We have had lots go astray, birthday, anniversary cards, present from Germany, thank you cards. All that seems to get through is "official mail". Even some stuff in brown evelopes fail to turn up.. it is really frustrating at times.

louthlass


Joined: 09/11/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
18/10/2009 08:26

No problems with outgoing mail, but in 26 years, incoming mail almost non existant. Local mail, tax demands etc. arrive no problem.

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
18/10/2009 08:37

Im waiting for a bumper birthday and christmas when all the missing cards and presents eventually turn up. Not just from UK also Canada and Austrilia. Only thing I have received in 5 years was a packet of walkers crisps a customer sent to me. The were dust. the thought was there xx

Krin52


Joined: 25/08/2008
Posts: 419

Message Posted:
18/10/2009 09:00

You make me laugh Liz! I also received a packet of Walker's shortbread from my sister-in-law in Australia, a couple of years back! Powder like yours! I made an apple 'crumble' topping with them!

come_on_aylin


Joined: 14/06/2008
Posts: 908

Message Posted:
18/10/2009 09:21

Brother is law sent a parcel for our kids... with playing cards, book, necklace and a scarf. The parcel had been opened and the cards and book stolen. Even though all the items were written on the customs declaration!



Unfortunately theft is endemic in the postal systems of most countries. sometimes sheer laziness too. My husband knows of a Woking postman who was jailed for dumping mail by the bag-load simply because he couldn't be bothered to deliver it on his rounds. Stupid idiot didn't realise that dumping a whole bag-load would single him out him as the perpetrator...



Look up "Sorting Office Theft" in Google... you'll get an idea of the size of the problem in the UK! Add to that the likelihood of items being valuable when sent abroad and the difficulty in tracing the source of the problem and you'll see that it's all too easy for mail theft/dumping to go unpunished.

stockiefan


Joined: 04/05/2009
Posts: 574

Message Posted:
18/10/2009 09:56

I will start a rumour here. I heard that "most" mail from the UK to the TRNC goes through a huge sorting office in London. The story is that this office employs a large of Greek Nationals?? Deduce from that where the mail goes, I think thats all bull but who knows?

Bigcheese


Joined: 12/01/2009
Posts: 51

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 10:58

According to an article in Cyprus Today a couple of weeks ago, the BRS and Royal Mail did a big study to investigate what is happening to post from the UK which is not arriving in the TRNC and it appears that the majority of it is lost in Turkey. It arrives in Istanbul and Royal Mail are able to track it to there, but then it disappears before reaching the TRNC!

I have a relative who used to work for Royal Mail in the UK and he said that they are all instructed to separate Mersin (which goes to Mersin in Turkey) and Mersin 10 (which comes to the TRNC) separately and it goes in separate bags and is loaded separately so it should be easy to idenitfy and offload in Turkey and then load it onto the plane to TRNC. Obviously something wrong in the system in Turkey.

bridie


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 308

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 11:18

Or even the system in Nicosia.

Oleander


Joined: 03/05/2009
Posts: 302

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 11:36

When I had to post a parcel to a TC Friend of mine in TRNC, she told me to send it to her family's address in Turkey, saying it would be much more likely not to get lost and even if it didn't 'get lost' she'd probably get it quicker from there (she visits often) than she would if she had to wait for it to arrive in TRNC.

matula


Joined: 07/07/2008
Posts: 647

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 12:51

Msg.23 That is bull. The problem is much nearer home. I have had items which never arrived (or delivered) at my Lapta box which were posted in various countries---USA, Australia, Sweden, New Zealand and of course the UK. Where is the common point---not the Mount Pleasant sorting office!

mamachina


Joined: 22/11/2008
Posts: 730

Message Posted:
19/10/2009 17:27

We've a box in Alsancak and this year we've received letters from the bank and some jiffy bags with small presents in. No cards or ordinary letters at all. Did get some Christmas cards but not as many as we would have expected! We're also hoping that the BRS/rM investigation has done some good and we can expect the odd letter, card and post card to arrive! Dont mind if they're late, just would like to receive them!