missile

Can anyone advise how long it may take for a letter posted today in the UK to arrive in Spain?

pwwm

We have had them arrive within two dys, but also take couple of weeks, so as the saying goes, how long is a piece of string, hopwfully will be the latter.

missile

Hope it is the former

Dick Dasterdly

Same experience for me.
More often 2 weeks than 2 days.
Yet I often get post from Scandinavia which is rarely if ever more than 2 or 3 days.

It's a long time ago now, maybe 16 years or more back, when it was said to be common practice for UK mail to be deliberately held iup n Madrid for a couple of weeks every once in a while, something to do with the Gibraltar issue as I recall.
Wether or not that was correct or is the case now, I haven't a clue.

Domino

I had a fairly weighty package - cost £4.22 - posted on 29/10 arrived on 5/11, considering there was a Spanish holiday in the middle quite good
have these regularly and the longest it has taken was 10 days.

its a bind knowing there is something you need and that it has been posted and having to sit there and wait.

currently awaiting my S1 from Intl Pensions they say it was bulk posted on 31/10.............

missile

Thanks, I will have to try to be patient and hope it doesn't get lost.

Domino

I have known a next day by 9am package sent via BusinessPost from East Anglia to Sussex take 9 working days to get there.

missile

This is a letter in a standard A6 envelope so hopefully it should get through quickly.

lyric030250

These come a peculiar way "courier post" ours took a month.

I am awaiting a cheque from Camelot (lottery people) for the closure of my account which had been dormant, I have no idea how much but suspect £10.

The man in customer services assures me he posted it to my Spanish address personally (he has it correct) on the 6th September. Cue Diana Ross.

Domino

what does your account logon say ?
they will hit you with the statement you are not in the UK, but that can be overridden.

lyric030250

It may have been closed by now but how can I override it, I have tried "expat shield"

Domino

you should still be able to log in if you have all the logins and codes - I did it last year on holiday in Spain, before moving permantly, and they told me I was outside their remit or some such. But they should still allow you into your account, just ignore it and click through it.

I tried expat shield on that holiday last year and they still told me I couldn't play with them - leading me to believe they could see me, so i did a check on cqcounter to find my IP was given as California
so I deleted it and walked away.