Thai post and the art of disappearing

[charlesh]

Have had 2 recent significant mail losses (air mail), 1 with a credit card and the other with a debit card sent from o/s to Kao Tao. The last letter 3 months after the first and yes in the case of the last letter an address in Thai! Never had a prob. in Oz prior to this.

Managed to cancel the first credit card and in process of doing same with debit.

Is it just my bad luck or is their some sinister slight of hand with Thai Post beginning after the mail bags are removed from the plane at Suvanabhum (assuming the items have not done a runner in Oz or during transport) ??

Did manage to have several courier articles including packages delivered without mishap that didn't even have the Thai address!

Have any similar things happened to you??

Any suggestions at recourse and yes I don't think I will try the MIB.

[pitsch]

I had only one mail loss, when I ordered from Ebay USA. When I told the seller, he sent the same item a second time, free of charge, and I received it after 1 week.

[BaaBaa.]

Always exceeded expectations for me.

[Farang]

Now Hua Hin Post has managed to lose one of the locally sent EMS letters. It was mailed in HH Post Office itself
but never delivered. HH Post has acknowledged this matter and has royally comensated me with 300 THB.

Nihil nove sub sole. My old posting from way back in 2003:

http://www.huahinafterdark.com/forum/po ... g-t56.html

[hhfarang]

Always exceeded expectations for me.

Me too, but being Thailand, I wasn't expecting very much...

[STEVE G]

It happens everywhere, my new credit card has dissapeared in the post somewhere between London and Somerset.
I ordered it in September and asked them to send it to the local branch here but so far it hasn't made it.

[moja]

We try never to use Thai post other than a last resort. Thankfully we have enough visiting friends and family to make this possible.

We did not receive a single item of mail from the end of July until the middle of September - we never get anything that is sent from the UK but HH postal service used to manage to deliver the bills but that is no longer the case.

When we complained we were told if there was mail for us then they would deliver it - well they managed that for around two weeks but all deliveries seem to have stopped again.

However my friend in Cha'am receives mail from the UK with no problem at all and usually within 5 days so.............

[T.I.G.R.]

I think Moja may have hit the nail on the head. We used to have mail lost when we were in HH frequently.

Since we moved to Cha Am nothing lost and everything we send gets where it's meant to go in good time.

It's only a few minutes to Pranburi from HH, maybe for mail it would be worth the trip.

[K2OWN]

I have lost count of the amount of mail that has never arrived here. Postman just laughs now but it must be going somewhere ?? Although TOT bill and Makro Mail arrives here okay !!!!!!

[mr lonely]

I have had loads of mail dissappear.
1. Go to the post office up to the 2nd floor and ask to look in your 'slot' on the wall
2. Note just how many boxes of undeliverd mail there are lying around
3. Ask for a complaint form and get the name of the chief of Hua Hin post office, take the form in an envelope to the head mans office

Strange though they always manage to deliver bills - I guess that the bill companies would cause problems if many people didnt pay because they didnt get a bill
I saw 3 boxes of Truevisions magazine on the floor so I called Truevisions and they said they will send someone to the post office to check. Miraculously I started receiving the magazine after that.

A friend of mine here tells me that non delivery of mail is common and homes of postmen are checked if several complaints are received. Undelivered mail is often found at postmans home
I have given up of receiving anything from UK as it dissapears probably at the airport.
Only option for important stuff like credit cards is to use courier service albeit expensive or to check if anyone will bring mail for you when they visit Uk

[pfotoguy369]

I'm needing a card delivered but thinking of using DHL

[mat]

If you want to be sure your postmail will be delivered abroad (in my case Europe), use DHL. I allways use them for sending important post and they are very reliable, never lost 1 item.

[Wanderlust]

In my experience it is rare for items to go missing from Hua Hin to wherever, but far too commonplace being not delivered to homes in Hua Hin, particularly from abroad, but also domestic mail. I still don't know whether this is down to bad organisation at the Post Office itself, or problems with postmen either not being able to read the address, being too lazy, or stealing, or a combination of all. What I have discovered is that in our previous rented house in Samorphong, an identical address/numbering had been created on a new development and at least some of our mail had been delivered there, or had not been delivered at all because of the confusion. It would not surprise me at all if this wasn't more common, or that only slight differences in address, such as '123/456 Natural Hill' and '123/456 Natural Lake Hill' would end up not being delivered. One thing that also seems to be the case is that it is not common practice for Thais to 'redeliver' incorrectly delivered mail, or even to hand it back to the postman/post office, but rather just throw it away. There is definitely an ongoing problem with the UBC magazine, as the pile of undelivered ones was there when we went looking for lost mail over two years ago; while the staff at the PO were as helpful as they could be, I think the system may be to blame more than anything, in combination with some lazy/dishonest staff. I never had a single problem with mail in Bangkok so for me this is definitely a local issue.

[Lung Per]

I tested the Thai Postal Service by mailing a letter from a mailbox at the HH airport to my house in HH. It says on the mailbox that it is emptied every day at 15:00 hrs. Well, the letter was delivered to my house after 12 days. I also mailed a letter from the same mailbox to my P.O. Box in Hua Hin. That took only 10 days. Bills from TT&T are not received, nor are promotion letters from Index, Home Pro and others. I have reason to believe that even more incoming mail is never delivered.
Several letters posted from the HH post office to Europe never reached their destination.

[kendo]

If anyone is having mail sent from the U.K there are two Royal mail strikes thursday and friday this week, i think there issues are going to get far more serious, as they are going to hire 30,000 tempory staff, they normaly hire 15,000 temps before christmas but this is double and far more early this is going to kick off big time.

My experiance of sending parcels from the U.K to my wife's mums house in Issan (Surin) they have allways got there in five days using Royal mail signed for service, not cheap but they get there to a very small village not even on any map i have looked at, and 45 Km's from the city of Surin, only once a small packet got opened but the contence was put into a plastic bag along with the damaged jiffy bag.

We normaly send CD's english t-shirts photos sweets and other small items, now we use shoe boxes and bind them very tight with brown parcel tape. One day i went to my local post office and up to 2Kg's its about £22.00 on this ocassion it was a fraction over so the price went up to £60.00, so i took the parcel home cut it open and removed one packet of sweets weighing 40 grams just to get it under 2Kg's, i know its a lot of money compared to the value of the contence but sometimes you have to send a gift or two.

From Surin my wife's brother posted her a shoe box with some creams and make up and books and also 200 cigs for me arrived in 7 days cost £1000 Baht.

Kendo.