hey guys, I was told at the post office today that Thailand suspended all mail deliveries from USA starting this week.

Anybody knows how long the suspension is for, guessing for the month of April. And also, is it just the ban from USPS or did they ban all other carriers such as Fedex, Ups, etc...

The same goes for Sweden as well. Checked the website for the swedish postal-organisation, as due to the fact that there is no freight-aircrafts to Thailand, they store all mail and packages at their storage-house in Sweden, while waiting for this corona-stuff to be sorted.

 

glegolo

Here is the USPS update link for International Service

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm

 

1 hour ago, glegolo said:

The same goes for Sweden as well. Checked the website for the swedish postal-organisation, as due to the fact that there is no freight-aircrafts to Thailand, they store all mail and packages at their storage-house in Sweden, while waiting for this corona-stuff to be sorted.

 

glegolo

shutting down everything ???? 

I hope it will help this chaos to slow down. Let's stay patient !

1 hour ago, RayongBudgie said:

Here is the USPS update link for International Service

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/international/welcome.htm

 

Thanks for the link.

I should have checked this sooner ????

 

Stay safe ????

Information for USA members is available here:

 

 

Here is a link to the British Royal Mail service regarding the effect of Covid 19.

 

https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5317/~/international-incident-bulletin

I tried to send a letter to the U S yesterday. The post office said to come back in about a month. 

I have a parcel coming from China. First 3 days moved ok within China then stopped. No tracking since 30th March

I've been waiting 12 days for a registered letter from USA.  Online tracking says the label was created but it's not in the system . The post office told the sender it is in New York.

I sent mail to Canada on Wednesday and it now goes but surface which means ship. It could take one to two months to arrive. 

 

1 hour ago, Dazinoz said:

I have a parcel coming from China. First 3 days moved ok within China then stopped. No tracking since 30th March

Not just international deliveries. I've got a parcel coming from Bangkok with Lazada. It was handed over to their delivery partner a week ago and it's still with them in BKK as far as I can tell.

I received an email from the French administration that my birth certificate was send to me March 11th, I never received it!

In height years it is the first time I do not received anything send to me.

 

 

28 minutes ago, Guderian said:

Not just international deliveries. I've got a parcel coming from Bangkok with Lazada. It was handed over to their delivery partner a week ago and it's still with them in BKK as far as I can tell.

yes, my last 2 Lazada orders coming from Thailand were slow too.

I had an express letter sent to me from USA by DHL supposed to be due on 9th.  I checked tracking yesterday and it showed it was en route from USA - I rec'd a text message this morning from DHL saying it would be delivered before 6pm this evening.

Edited April 10, 20206 yr by soisanuk

Mail from USA.  Starting last October I was getting no mail at all.  Today I still have three very important documents missing from that time.  My wife started asking her friends in they were getting all of their mail.  They were not!  They went as a group to the Post Office to complain.  The excuse was that our area had a new post person and that he/she could not find out homes.  Not so as I had seen this person delivering mail to the house next to mine.  Another trip to the post office and a search of mail returned by the carriers.  We did find one important document (SSA 1099) that had been returned but none of those that had been missing for months.  Service is better now.  Receiving TOT and True bills but nothing from outside of Thailand.  Hopefully this part will get better when the lockdowns are over.

I got two letters from the UK posted about 2 1/2 weeks ago yesterday.

Mail service is definitely disrupted.

This is a result of the lack of flights so, I would anticipate mail services not returning to normal until the flights return to normal. Upon being declined by Thai Post, I used UPS but was told they could not say when the mailing would reCh the USA destination.

There are no flights currently, hence no airmail service. I was told yesterday by the post office they can send by surface to Europe, it will take about 3 months. ????

6 minutes ago, Mak25 said:

There are no flights currently, hence no airmail service. I was told yesterday by the post office they can send by surface to Europe, it will take about 3 months. ????

No so many flights from the US but look how many over China. Snap shot of aircraft in the air taken just now.

I just received a package from Singapore via DHL, sent on the 7th April, arrived on the 9th April,  not too shabby

I just received insurance letter mailed from USA on 25th of March so not much worse than normal (which is often 2 weeks).

DHL in Pattaya work normally

Letter from 800 Baht.

But they don't send to all countries

 

 

 

 

My DHL package from USA that indicated it would arrive on 9 April, arrived at my home in Pattaya on 10 April.

Posted a birthday card from Hua Hin to my dear old mum in the UK this week. Was told surface only so 2-3 months! I took pictures of the card to email her instead (and will call on the day of course).

On 4/8/2020 at 9:41 PM, whiro said:

shutting down everything ???? 

I hope it will help this chaos to slow down. Let's stay patient !

yep, patient is needed more than ever !

Stay safe !

On 4/10/2020 at 1:22 PM, Ducatiski said:

I just received a package from Singapore via DHL, sent on the 7th April, arrived on the 9th April,  not too shabby

cool thanks. you are reminding me that there a DHL office in Chiang Mai.

10 hours ago, soisanuk said:

My DHL package from USA that indicated it would arrive on 9 April, arrived at my home in Pattaya on 10 April.

when was it mailed out from US?

 

16 hours ago, whiro said:

when was it mailed out from US?

 

It was shipped on 6 April - DHL delivered to my house in Pattaya on 10 April about 3pm.

3 hours ago, soisanuk said:

It was shipped on 6 April - DHL delivered to my house in Pattaya on 10 April about 3pm.

great news. Thanks for your reply. Appreciate that. 

stay safe !