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Huge postage increase !

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If it was sent by EMS or registered I would have a sticker on the letter, it isn't the case. The lady told me that it HAD to be a small packet for 16g !! ??

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  • scubascuba3
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    Being in Thailand is a good excuse to not send Xmas cards

  • ThaIrish Sean
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    We use moonpig.com  Book up to a year in advance and forget about it. You can put your pictures into the cards and text to personalise them.

  • You sent them as air mail registered, which is why you have a tracking number on your receipt. The regular fee is probably 36THB, and then 40THB extra for "registered"

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On 12/7/2020 at 5:36 PM, madox66 said:

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g : 76 B for UK and 175 B for USA !! Next year I will send online cards.

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Why not take pics of a barely clothed bar girl pouring you a beer and super impose text on and send them via facebook messenger...

12 minutes ago, Jenkins9039 said:

Why not take pics of a barely clothed bar girl pouring you a beer and super impose text on and send them via facebook messenger...

 

But wait until the day after a huge cold front blows through back home.  Preferably with freezing rain.

 

On 12/7/2020 at 10:40 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Being in Thailand is a good excuse to not send Xmas cards

Indeed. Don't send em dude, save the trees!

I stopped years ago and just can't be bothered anymore.

I usually phone or email.

I also was amazed  at at the new postal costs .I HAVE Sent TO UK LETTER BEFORE 23 BHT now 75 !!!  unreasonable 

22 hours ago, Susco said:

This is what I found about the UA tracking number on Google. It doesn't seem to be only Thai related.

 

https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Shipping-Returns/TRACKING-NUMBER-BEGINS-WITH-UA-INTERNATIONAL-FIRST-CLASS/td-p/26508394

 

 

How the post services treat the tracking numbers varies from country to country. You might get a totally different shipping type, depending on from which country you send, even if two tracking numbers start with the same letters. That post which you linked, about the US postal service, is completely unrelated to this topic here.

2 minutes ago, jackdd said:

How the post services treat the tracking numbers varies from country to country. You might get a totally different shipping type, depending on from which country you send, even if two tracking numbers start with the same letters. That post which you linked, about the US postal service, is completely unrelated to this topic here.

 

No it is not. Postal services all over the world are standardized these days, for the simple reason that other countries see from the tracking number how they should treat a particular postage.

 

E stands all over the world for Express, where R all over the world stands for Registered

On 12/7/2020 at 5:36 PM, madox66 said:

Been to the main post office to sent 5 Xmas cards. The lady told me there was an increase in the postage but I never thought it would be that much for a regular, not registered air mail letter weighing just 16 g : 76 B for UK and 175 B for USA !! Next year I will send online cards.

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I have plenty of nice cards for you. Only 10 baht per photo. 

1 minute ago, Susco said:

 

No it is not. Postal services all over the world are standardized these days, for the simple reason that other countries see from the tracking number how they should treat a particular postage.

 

E stands all over the world for Express, where R all over the world stands for Registered

 

Not in Germany, and since Germany uses their own system, there are probably more countries which do so as well.

In Germany it doesn't matter if you send it as express or registered, if it's a parcel above 5kg it always has a C tracking number, and once in Thailand all those parcels are processed as express.

If it's a parcel up to 2kg private customer's parcels will get a L tracking number, while business customers get a R tracking number. These parcel are treated the same in Germany as well as in Thailand, as registered.

Sent this more than five weeks ago and it still hasn’t arrived. At least they are consistent with their incompetence   ????????????‍♂️????????

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On 12/9/2020 at 10:33 PM, Jenkins9039 said:

Why not take pics of a barely clothed bar girl pouring you a beer and super impose text on and send them via facebook messenger...

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On 12/8/2020 at 2:31 AM, sanuk711 said:

Do they then send them as a card or as an e-mail.???? the site is a little vague

It is sent as a card with your personalisation on it. They send it via airmail.

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