Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Hi there
I am flying out to New Zealand this Saturday for 6 months (but hopefully forever if someone will give me a job). I am travelling alone and don't know anyone in NZ and so basically starting from scratch. I will be probably staying in backpackers for a wee while while I look for rented accomodation. Does anyone know the best way of getting mail delivered from the UK if I have no fixed address during 1st few weeks? I have a replacement UK driving license and police checks that won't be ready before I leave Scotland. I was thinking of trying to get a PO box but I think you have to keep it for a full year and is fairly expensive. If anyone has any thoughts or tips that would be brilliant. cheers Barry |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Originally Posted by Barpolo
(Post 5610897)
Hi there
I am flying out to New Zealand this Saturday for 6 months (but hopefully forever if someone will give me a job). I am travelling alone and don't know anyone in NZ and so basically starting from scratch. I will be probably staying in backpackers for a wee while while I look for rented accomodation. Does anyone know the best way of getting mail delivered from the UK if I have no fixed address during 1st few weeks? I have a replacement UK driving license and police checks that won't be ready before I leave Scotland. I was thinking of trying to get a PO box but I think you have to keep it for a full year and is fairly expensive. If anyone has any thoughts or tips that would be brilliant. cheers Barry Hi Barry friends and family seem a good place start and they can forward them on simon |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Originally Posted by simon-nall
(Post 5610948)
Hi Barry
friends and family seem a good place start and they can forward them on simon |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Thanks for the replies..........My Mum is going to post me my mail. Did you set up a PO box in NZ when you arrived or did you quickly have a NZ address to have mail sent to?
Barry |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
A PO Box is an annual fee as you say. Somewhere around $130 I believe.
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Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
here are all the details for PO Box/Private bag options
http://www.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-...ndPrivateBags/ |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Best idea is Poste Restante whereby your mail and parcels are held at a post office for you to pick up. :thumbsup:
Bit about Poste Restante: http://www.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-...e+Restante.htm Poste Restante Locations: http://www.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-...+Locations.htm Easy peasy (as long as you are near a post office (post shop here) which offers the service. |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Brilliant!.......just what I'm looking for.......thanks a million!
Barry |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
what part of bonnie scotland are you from barrie....fellow scots here:thumbsup:
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Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
I'm from Gourock (It's beside Greenock)......Whereabouts are you from?
I've been living in Ireland for the last 5 years but I never lost my accent. Has anybody developed a Kiwi accent yet? Barry |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Originally Posted by Barpolo
(Post 5613083)
I'm from Gourock (It's beside Greenock)......Whereabouts are you from?
I've been living in Ireland for the last 5 years but I never lost my accent. Has anybody developed a Kiwi accent yet? Barry |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Originally Posted by garryhg
(Post 5615206)
son keeps saying awsome(which i hate)and both kids have started going up at the end of there entences :blink: sounds weird
I think unless you have a really strong accent, if you're mentally open to picking it up, then you will subconsciously allow yourself to. I lived in the US Midwest for 12 years and didn't pick that one up. Because I didn't want it! I started picking up a bit of a twang after a couple of years and made a very conscious effort to fight that off. But the Kiwi one is already creeping in. And I don't mind at all, I'll let that happen quite happily. |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Originally Posted by Maz
(Post 5615256)
I've already started picking up some accent and things like saying "cool... cool" at work. The vast majority of my colleagues are all Kiwis (and the two that aren't don't say much anyway) so I hear it all day.
I think unless you have a really strong accent, if you're mentally open to picking it up, then you will subconsciously allow yourself to. I lived in the US Midwest for 12 years and didn't pick that one up. Because I didn't want it! I started picking up a bit of a twang after a couple of years and made a very conscious effort to fight that off. But the Kiwi one is already creeping in. And I don't mind at all, I'll let that happen quite happily. |
Re: Getting post delivered during 1st 2 weeks in NZ
Me and him still have our own accents, although I have noticed that sometimes Phil ends his sentences with an upward inflection? which sounds really weird with his Wolverhampton accent .
I'm a bit of a mimic at the best of times but have made a conscious effort not to pick up some of the words & phrases used here , such as 'awesome' & 'sweet as ' although Phil tells me I am using the phrase 'yis,no' . That'll be 'all good ' then. |
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