ese002@news9.exile.org (Eric Edwards) wrote:
>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:03:39 +0100, Liz wrote:
>>I don't think any small packages I've sent there have arrived, though, so I
>>wouldn't send any more.
>Interesting. I didn't have any such trouble sending from Africa.
>(Never tried sending to Africa) I sent 2 packages home from
>Dar Es Salaam on different days. Both arrived in the US in about 4
>weeks. I also shipped from Livingstone, Zambia. No problem there
>either. Granted, I didn't ship to the UK, but I would expect that to be
>more reliable, not less. All packages were sent air mail.
>
>Sea mail can be entertaining. Three months from Cape Town to the US.
Eric,
you can't draw very firm conclusions from just a few local
observations. Generally the mail systems in Africa are
unreliable. We just have to take that. We cannot recommend to
send anything that's really important, because there's always a
risk that it gets lost or, more likely, stolen, particularly
anything thicker than a postcard or a one page letter.
Of course most postcards, many letters, and quite a few parcels
do get through. Sometimes it takes long, sometimes it takes very
long, and the rest arrives never.
Hans-Georg
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