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I received a letter from Norway to Canada in two days by regular air mail. That is a first.

Never seen that.

What about you?

Regi. letter from Bulgaria to Denmark, 2½ day

And from the second end - USA to Czech republic, airmail about 2 months - delayed not due to technical problems or strikes - only some idiot clerk overlooked Czech republic, so it was originally send within a state and then to Czech republic by ship. And this happened to me at least twice.

ANd now the fast service both ways. In the Pre-PayPal time I used to pay for my eBay purchases by sending cash in a registered envelope. So, I sent letter on Monday afternoon - let say 3 p.m. to Denmark and received the items on Friday morning. So, both ways in 4 days.

Last month... Paid for an item at 3:30pm, was at my door the very next day at 11:00am.

The item was from London to Athens.

Great service there!!!

Paid for on Monday evening UK time.

Arrived at my house Thursday morning.

Item was from Japan.

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Always on the lookout for Australian pre decimal First Day Covers.

Shortest - Denmark to GB in one day.

Shortest inter-continental - Japan to GB in three days. The place in Japan was Yamaguchi, nowhere near Tokyo.

The most annoying is things like two packages sent from Canada recently, sent by the same person from the same post office at the same time. Package two of two took four days, package one of two took eleven.

I once got a pile of books from Washington DC for my employer in the UK. They were sent in five packages paid for by surface mail as they were for record purposes and not urgent.

One got to the UK in four days, sent by air mail at no extra charge - thank you . Three rolled in separately in the next two to four weeks via surface mail . The fifth turned up three months later with transit marks for Caracas clearly stamped on it!

That's Caracas in Venezuela.

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Belgium to Los Angeles - 3 days! Regular mail. Almost fainted.
(and the stamps were uncancelled)

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Jim M.

Germany to UK regularly gets here in 2 - 3 days.

I've also received mail from NZ in quick time. The NZ World Cup Winners sheet was a case in point. The match was on the Sunday, the sheet ordered on the Monday, and received here in UK before the end of the week.

Regularly get mail posted in Fiji on a Monday & arrives on a Friday.

One in today from NZ, posted on 18 May...so 4 days

Slowest award goes to Royal Mail (who else??). Birthday card to my dad, posted first class; had 60 miles to travel...took 5 days

Andy

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If it ain't broke.....fix it 'til it is!!

http://www.lanarkshireps.co.uk

My fastest has been Scotland to Australia (small country town) in 3 days.

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A man might as well marry ... if he finds a good wife he will be happy ... if not, he will become a philosopher.
Collecting Greater New Guinea & Macropods (Kangaroos & Wallabies).

Seoul, South Korea to Melbourne, Australia.

Paid Sunday night arrived Tuesday afternoon...

I can get a letter sent to me from the UK (2 - 3 days) faster than I can get a similar item from the US (1 to 2 weeks), sometimes even another state in Australia (3 to 4 days).

D.

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Years ago when I was living in the Blue Mountains, I received a letter from the UK on the Monday, having bought the item off eBay on the Friday before. So, 1 business day.

Once I received a regular letter from USA to Malta in just 3 days. Typically, it takes anywhere between 7 to 14 days.

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I collect mainly Malta, Caribbean Islands, Soccer, Churchill & Lady Di

About two years ago I received a small package from the UK within 5 days and a parcel from Victoria that was also posted the same day arrived at the same time!

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Collector and Part Time Dealer (Member IPDA)website and online store - http://www.pwstamps.com.au - Australia & World Stamps & Covers, Discounted Catalogues & Accessories

Australia - Belgium in 5 days.

To compare; that same period I send a card from one end to another in Belgium, about 120 km. in distance. It took 7 days

Three days from Australia.

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With kind regards, Jim

I had a customer last Tuesday who wanted stamps urgently for a birthday present on Friday. I emailed bank details, she paid by telephone banking, I checked the bank online, posted the stamps Tuesday afternoon. Delivered next day.

No big deal but this was a journey longer than many to mainland europe! From Dereham, Norfolk, to St Margarets Hope, South Ronaldsay, Orkney - according to google maps 666 miles by road. Of course it would have gone by air part of the way, but that's still impressive. I could have charged £6+ more for special delivery next day, but I reckoned it was unnecessary based on usual the performance by Royal Mail that I experience. Others are less fortunate and have cause to complain, but generally it is excellent.

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Ian Billings - Norvic Philatelics GB stamps info: http://www.norphil.co.uk - also /catalog for our ecommerce site, blog.norphil.co.uk, shop.norphil.co.uk and Ian_norvic on twitter

From Castlecrag NSW Australia, to Lawrenceville, GA. USA in 4 days.

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I buy too much, can't sell enough - but the information here is priceless.

Castlecrag, we've never heard of that place on here.

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Collecting Mongolia; Thailand; Indo-China; Mourning Covers; OHMS.
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From Taiwan to Illinois USA in 5 1/2 days. In terms of distance that pretty good haha most are a week or longer

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Collecting:
China, Taiwan, North Korea, Middle East... Or any new stamp that catches my eye.
and Collecting Fish, Birds, Large animals (ex: Elephants,OX,panda)

From Dereham Norfolk posted Monday 11 June
Arrived London Ontario Thursday 14 June

Of course the customer would have preferred that I had posted it back on 15 May when he paypalled but I must have been taking a leaf out of Glen's book.

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Ian Billings - Norvic Philatelics GB stamps info: http://www.norphil.co.uk - also /catalog for our ecommerce site, blog.norphil.co.uk, shop.norphil.co.uk and Ian_norvic on twitter

Bought a wrapper on 11th unknown to me the seller was Honza, a stampboards member in the Czech Republic, he posted it on the 12th and I received it here on 14th, that's what I call good service.

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Donald.
Aus KGV Head Addict !

Got a letter today (June 28) posted from Austria on June 26!

At the other extreme, last month a letter sent from Connecticut USA took OVER A MONTH to get to Toronto Canada!!

I received a letter from Florida that I know was posted on the 8th. June, it was cancelled in Houston on 15th. June (presumably that's an o/seas sorting hub) and I got it on 27th. June (i.e. almost 3 weeks to deliver).

Talk about an abysmal postal service

On the other side of the coin, I sent a letter from Sydney to Bavaria last Friday and it was received on the following Wednesday 5 days later (including a weekend).

Aust. Post and Deutsche Post well done

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Tony

Sweden to the U.S. on the 3rd day.

Blackett New South wales to Auckland New Zealand, sent Friday 15 June, arrived Monday 18 June (Over a weekend and we have no Saturday delivery or uday collection). Normally Australian mail takes at least 5 working days.

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I collect Malta, Ireland, Malta, Tristan da Cunha, Malta, various Pacific Islands, Malta, New Zealand, Malta, Australia and Malta.

Someone on ebay left me feedback that she received the items the next day from Malta to the UK.

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I collect mainly Malta, Caribbean Islands, Soccer, Churchill & Lady Di

From Budapest, Hungary to Wisconsin,USA in four days,
regular mail.

A new fast, letter mailed from Australia (To Denmark) on the 18. July, arrived early morning on the 21 July - Another letter mailed later, same time - dosn't looklike it goes the other way around tho

Kloster

I once, and only once, received a letter on a Monday that was posted in the UK on the previous Friday.

Scott

A British friend once sent me a letter, but in error he typed the word Australia thus: "U S A".

Three days after he posted the letter it arrived at my home.

I think it took 5 days for a parcel I sent to go from the US to the UK.