Mail deliveries
Has anyone in Dubai had (worse than usual) issues receiving mail sent from the UK using Royal Mail recently? I’m waiting on couple of small packages and a couple of letters, which I know were sent at different times in the 4 and 8 weeks ago. They’ve all been posted to my usual work PO Box address but no sign.
Could the packages be getting held up at customs, and is there anywhere you can check if things are being held? Thanks in advance. |
Re: Mail deliveries
postal service here have been shite for 30 years and i suspect it'll still be shite 30 years from now.
shop and ship or other couriers are the only way to get mail with any form of reliability. |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by shiva
(Post 10800632)
postal service here have been shite for 30 years and i suspect it'll still be shite 30 years from now.
shop and ship or other couriers are the only way to get mail with any form of reliability. |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by the_red_sheep
(Post 10800611)
Has anyone in Dubai had (worse than usual) issues receiving mail sent from the UK using Royal Mail recently? I’m waiting on couple of small packages and a couple of letters, which I know were sent at different times in the 4 and 8 weeks ago. They’ve all been posted to my usual work PO Box address but no sign.
Could the packages be getting held up at customs, and is there anywhere you can check if things are being held? Thanks in advance. I generally find post from the UK to here is fine, apart from in February this year when several birthday card/gifts went missing. If it's important use Shop and Ship. |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10800687)
Unless it was sent registered/recorded post not much chance of finding it. The Post Office will be on a ramadan go slow now too.
I generally find post from the UK to here is fine, apart from in February this year when several birthday card/gifts went missing. If it's important use Shop and Ship. It just seems strange that several things posted independently have all apparently gone astray… A small part of me is still expecting them all to turn up together, a larger part thinks the earliest posted at least have been nicked or lost. |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by the_red_sheep
(Post 10800611)
Has anyone in Dubai had (worse than usual) issues receiving mail sent from the UK using Royal Mail recently? I’m waiting on couple of small packages and a couple of letters, which I know were sent at different times in the 4 and 8 weeks ago. They’ve all been posted to my usual work PO Box address but no sign.
Could the packages be getting held up at customs, and is there anywhere you can check if things are being held? Thanks in advance. |
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Took over 8 weeks to send my brother a letter out there. I was almost better off cycling down and giving it to him myself.
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I have been waiting for 4 years for a gift sent from UK :(
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Longest I've waited here was 4 months for a parcel that was stamped arrived in the UAE 4 months before I collected it! On the plus side it only took about 2 days to get here from the uk and 4 months to leave karama post office
Way too random for me so shop and ship for everything |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by shiva
(Post 10800942)
Longest I've waited here was 4 months for a parcel that was stamped arrived in the UAE 4 months before I collected it! On the plus side it only took about 2 days to get here from the uk and 4 months to leave karama post office
Way too random for me so shop and ship for everything Do you generally have to pay import tax if buying things from overseas and the shipping here? |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by the_red_sheep
(Post 10802101)
How’s your Shop and Ship account set up? Do you have a UK/US address that you send things to which are then sent out here, or do you have a Dubai address that everything is sent directly to?
Do you generally have to pay import tax if buying things from overseas and the shipping here? you have a uk and us account and stuff is delivered to the house. never paid tax i think they either ignore it or its built into the fees. |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by shiva
(Post 10802105)
check out the website.
you have a uk and us account and stuff is delivered to the house. never paid tax i think they either ignore it or its built into the fees. red_sheep - you get charged by weight on the items, so you need to watch that as it can get expensive. Great for important documents though. |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10802153)
That seems to be the case. These days you also get a dropbox addresses in China and Turkey although I've yet to use either of them.
red_sheep - you get charged by weight on the items, so you need to watch that as it can get expensive. Great for important documents though. have yet to use the china address and will almost certainly never use the turkish one |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by shiva
(Post 10802178)
even with the weight you can save a fortune of local price gouging. Depends on the items.
have yet to use the china address and will almost certainly never use the turkish one |
Re: Mail deliveries
Originally Posted by Meow
(Post 10802184)
True. A friend used my S&S account to buy a particular tent from the US and still got it for half what it was on sale for here.
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