I stopped by my local post office in Wangchomphu (a small village near Phetchabun) to mail a letter to the USA, and was in for a big surprise! I didn't ask for anything special, like registered mail - just regular air mail. I hadn't mailed anything to the USA for a couple of years and just expected to go in, pay for a couple of stamps, and the letter would be sent. But that's not what happened...

 

The clerk at the post office said the requirements for sending mail to the USA had changed and were very difficult. I spent 45 minutes giving her all kinds of information, like my email address and phone number, the phone number of the addressee, and after all that time, the clerk finally just said they couldn't send it! 

 

I'm going to try again this Friday at the post office in Phetchabun, a large city, and hopefully will have better luck.

 

Has anyone else tried to mail a letter to the USA recently? If so, how did that go for you? 

Some recent threads on it:

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1370629-international-mail-to-united-states-ended-indefinitely/

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1371002-no-mail-to-usa/

 

Wow! It looks like Thailand has suspended all mail to the USA! I didn't know that.

I was able to send my letter, which was to the local Elections Board at my USA address and about my voter's registration, by FAX using a nice online service called WISEFAX. The fax only cost me one dollar. 

I went to Soi post office in Pattaya. Because of the Tariffs by the U.S. government Americans cannot send parcels or receive it from the U.S. They can send letters so they took mine but they said they needed my passport and it only be sent by registered mail. They charged me 355 baht and off I went. 

A lot of misinformation above. 

 

Letter mail to the United States is accepted as long as the letter does not contain merchandise.  Registration is available but not required. My local Hua Hin 77111 post office routinely accepts letter mail to the United States.

 

The rate depends on the weight of the letter and the service requested.  These are posted and updated on the Thai Post website:

 

https://www.thailandpost.co.th/?page=rate_result_nrs3&to_CountryID=210::United States of America&parcel_weight=

 

 

Here in CM, just sent a letter last week, documents, no problem. Already arrived in USA. 

On 10/19/2025 at 6:51 AM, kawikasudo said:

Tariffs by the U.S. government Americans cannot send parcels or receive it from the U.S.

 

Tariffs should have no effect whatsoever on outgoing shipments from the US to other countries, but the combination of the tariffs and the elimination of the de minimis customs exemption seem to have caused many nations to suspend postal relationships with the US while they figure out exactly what they're supposed to be doing. There's a lot of confusion out there.

I mailed off my SS letter last month.
Show my Thailand DL, paid about 300 something for EMS and off it went.
Arrived safely in the US. I think it was about 2 weeks.
In the past 14 years, Thailand Post has been flawless.  

On 10/15/2025 at 10:36 AM, WDSmart said:

I stopped by my local post office in Wangchomphu (a small village near Phetchabun) to mail a letter to the USA, and was in for a big surprise! I didn't ask for anything special, like registered mail - just regular air mail. I hadn't mailed anything to the USA for a couple of years and just expected to go in, pay for a couple of stamps, and the letter would be sent. But that's not what happened...

 

The clerk at the post office said the requirements for sending mail to the USA had changed and were very difficult. I spent 45 minutes giving her all kinds of information, like my email address and phone number, the phone number of the addressee, and after all that time, the clerk finally just said they couldn't send it! 

 

I'm going to try again this Friday at the post office in Phetchabun, a large city, and hopefully will have better luck.

 

Has anyone else tried to mail a letter to the USA recently? If so, how did that go for you? 

I've send one a few weeks ago, small arount 15 grams with a tiny form for a subsription renewal; no problems, just a fee for the postage. If you are sending anything that requires custom check – after the nation changed president to one that love tarifs – USA has become extremely difficult due to stricter tarifs. Some countries don't mail custom duty-stuff to US at the moment.

I sent a graduation card from BKK to the USA in May. It arrived at the US International Mail Center on June 18, 2025.

It is still there, over four months later!

 

On 10/20/2025 at 3:13 PM, khunPer said:

I've send one a few weeks ago, small arount 15 grams with a tiny form for a subsription renewal; no problems, just a fee for the postage. If you are sending anything that requires custom check – after the nation changed president to one that love tarifs – USA has become extremely difficult due to stricter tarifs. Some countries don't mail custom duty-stuff to US at the moment.

My letter just had one page, a filled-out voter's registration. As I said above, I was unable to send it at my local post office. I copied it, created a .pdf from the image, and faxed it. That just cost $1 to do online with WISEFAX. It was delivered immediately, and I've received a response by email verifying that from the registration office. 

I've been on the phone and visited several local post offices in my rural area regarding whether or not letters can currently be mailed to the US. A few months back the two post offices close to my home were telling me that I had to go to a post office about a 45 minute drive from my house which had been designated as a branch which could accept letters to the US. I recently had a letter which had to be mailed, and before driving 45 minutes to this post office, I called several times to make sure this was the case. The branch manager later called me back and told me that all post offices could now receive mail to the US, so after hearing this, I decided to go to one of the branches near my house to tell them what the manager had told me. It turned out that in order for the branch to enter a letter into the postal computer system that have to go to a separate website: "dpostinter.thailandpost.com/login"

 

I suspect that the reason there was a period of time when only designated post offices could receive outbound mail to the US is because there was a training issue on getting all branches trained on how to use this separate website. Even now, it appears that if you live in an area where there is not much demand for mail service to the US, the local post office may still be refusing to accept mail to the US, either because they are unaware that all post offices can now accept letter mail to the US, or there is so little demand for sending mail to the US that they just can't be bothered to deal with the logistical headache of entering the US bound letter into the new separate website. If you want to force the issue with your local post office, you may be able to enlist the help of ThaiPost's call center  at 0 2831 3131 which may be able to provide technical support to your local branch.

On 10/15/2025 at 3:36 PM, WDSmart said:

Has anyone else tried to mail a letter to the USA recently? If so, how did that go for you? 

From Bangkok, a week ago, from a smaller post office without any problem. Mailed a standard-sized envelope with three A4 pages folded inside.  Regular air mail, without tracking, 68 baht. Normally it takes around two weeks to arrive. 

On 10/15/2025 at 4:55 PM, WDSmart said:

Wow! It looks like Thailand has suspended all mail to the USA! I didn't know that.

I was able to send my letter, which was to the local Elections Board at my USA address and about my voter's registration, by FAX using a nice online service called WISEFAX. The fax only cost me one dollar. 

If it is voting material, and you can get to the Embassy, they will mail it for free, just drop off at the ACS section. And, they are required to track it. 

12 hours ago, LJHoward said:

If it is voting material, and you can get to the Embassy, they will mail it for free, just drop off at the ACS section. And, they are required to track it. 

I live way up in the mountains of Northeast Thailand. My closest post office, and the one I went to, is in a small village called Wangchomphu. I have no embassy near me, nor do I want to go to Bangkok or Chiang Mai to find one. Online fax worked for me.