Mail

What is with the mail system here? Some things come and go through internationally in days, others take months. I sent out a bunch of thank you cards the second week of January, most of which were received by friends and family last week. I received a wedding invitation last week that I'd already missed the deadline to RSVP on, along with two Valentines for Canadoca just this week. I also received two pieces of international mail which were just sent in the past 2 weeks, at the same time. What gives? Do they save it up until there's enough to fill an entire plane of airmail?

Comments

[Jonas]

heheh I think you are not using the right service lol
I sent a box with various music cd's to a friend in Houston, and it arrived there in 1 week, more precisely 6 days lol why that? I had the option for 4 types of services(as I was told)
1) regular with discount - it is cheap but it can take forever - like 1 month
2) regular - not so cheap but it can take forever as well - like 1 month
3) registered - expensive (not as expensive as Canadian post) it can take up to 30 days (lol)but you can track it inside Brazil
4) SEDEX - this is the best one, but really expensive (still cheaper than the Canadian xpress) delivery up to 15 days (my deliveries never took more than 7 days) plus you can track it even abroad. :)

[Account Deleted]

True, it's quite unpredictable. My Christmas cards all made it the the US and Europe within 10 days (sending them "simples"-slow). Cards and boxes that were sent here took a long time, 3 weeks for the boxes (sent priority!)and some cards took 2 months to arrive. I also have a package that is still MIA since December and for the first time in 6 years a package was held hostage by Correios (via Receita Federal), I had to pay $R65 to release a toy that cost US$30, but with the postage exceeded $US50. I didn't realize before this happened that they figure postage into the US$50 limit, at least they did in that instance. Yesterday received two Easter packages that were sent here from the US, only took 10 days. Yippie!

[Daily Rio Life]

It's so random. Some stuff takes no time at all and others, well....