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Home » Reader question » What about mail delivery in Khanom (Nakhon Si Thammarat)?
What about mail delivery in Khanom (Nakhon Si Thammarat)?
Dear readers,
I have a question about mail from the Netherlands, specifically to Khanom (Nakhon Si Thammarat). Are there any readers here who live or have lived in Khanom district in Nakhon Si Thammarat?
I had my daughter send a letter from the Netherlands to Khanom three times, and only one of them arrived, but only a month later. In November I will deregister in the Netherlands and will initially stay in Khanom for a few months. I expect important mail from the UWV within the first month (November) and perhaps also the M form from the tax authorities. As you may know, these documents must be completed and returned to these authorities.
However, I am afraid that this mail will not arrive at all or perhaps much too late, so I will get into trouble.
So if there are people here with the same experience with this kind of problem, I would like to know how they solved this? I assume that this is not only a problem in Khanom, but people with experience from Khanom can of course give me the best advice.
Regards,
George
Hi George,
From January 18 to February 1 we will stay at Hallo Villa in Khanom.
Maybe it's an option for you (if it's only about mail),
Then we can take your mail from the Netherlands.
Regards,
Ginny.
Dear Gonny
Nice of you, but unfortunately no solution for me as I expect this post at the end of November early December.
But maybe a solution if the authorities in the Netherlands accept this, my daughter could do this too, she just lives in the Netherlands.
regards George
Try to have a computer with printer operational as soon as possible.
The mail from the Netherlands to Thailand can sometimes take a long time!
kHANOM does not fall under Nakhon Si Thammarat, it falls under Surathani
Greetings from Sihon
http://www.sichon-bedandbreakfast-toco.com
Incorrect Jan, it does fall under Nakhon Si Thammarat.
Regards,
Monique
Dear Jan
Just to clarify, Khanom is indeed a district in Nakhon Si Thammarat province.
I have now obtained my “retirement visa” a month ago and I really did go through immigration
Nakhon Si Thammarat.
regards George.
Mail delivery is very bad, both to Thailand and to the Netherlands.
I sent three letters to myself numbered 1, 2 and three.
After 2 weeks nothing arrived, informed at local post office.
Only one surfaced.
Letter from SVB I knew it had been sent, I went back to the post office.
They would go looking.
Received a letter 3 days later, only the wrong one, one was from the tax.
letter had been on the road for 8 weeks.
They need to do away with the post everything digital.
With digid code and my svb you can do a bit digitally.
Have now sent a letter to the SVB, and asked through my SVB whether it has arrived.
Rent a post box on an annual basis from the local post office.
Isn't expensive.
I did years ago , when there was a problem with a mail deliverer at home , who had a serious alcohol problem .
I also regularly missed mail back then, but since then it has rarely been that something does not arrive.
Drop by the post box once a week , so the postal workers know you personally .
Because sometimes you have to go in to sign at the handling post department, if a registered document has arrived again.
In fact, every now and then I find mail from other farangs in my box, which I then neatly hand over to the postmaster with a smile.
What I do not understand is that certain important mail items, such as those from the Dutch tax authorities, are not sent by registered mail to the address in Thailand.
They never learn there in Holland with the government.
Jan Beute.
Yes, good advice, Jan Beute. Get a mailbox. I did that when I visited my parents-in-law in the village after a few months and found my letters soiled under a bench there. We lived 3 kilometers outside the village and the postman thought that was too far and gave the letters to my parents-in-law….
I also know how difficult addressing can be in Thailand: house number, village, sub-district, district, province, zip code. This does not always fit into the computers of the civil service or the newspaper, sometimes half of the address is not printed correctly. Then there's the spelling. Sometimes the postman can't figure it out either.
A postbox, I think 200 baht per year, is an excellent solution, simple address. Never lost anything again.
Dear Jan
Been to the post office a few times here in Khanom, it's not that big, but they put the blame on the head office in the provincial capital... etc... etc..., but I'll see if my girlfriend can open a PO box , I am now in the Netherlands myself.
I saw that they had 20 PO boxes, this with a wink.
regards George
I have left specially pre-printed envelopes in NL.
On those envelopes it says my address in Dutch etc etc. But next to it in the same font size I have my address in Thai.
They can read it in the Netherlands, but also at the post office in Thailand.
So when mail arrives in NL, my son forwards it in the special envelopes. I have never received a mail item, but the mail sometimes takes 3 weeks. Normally about 1 week.
Also important, put your telephone number on the envelope, we always call when we need to deliver a mail item again, why? no idea the postman lives 2 blocks from here.
If we are not at home for a week, the mail will not be delivered, but will be collected from his home.
The postman always waits neatly at the gate to deliver the mail. If no one comes, he takes it again instead of putting it in the mailbox.
In our village there were many complaints in the village (Isaan) about the postman. My wife told me that was just accepted. Nobody did anything. He casually asked the people where he delivers mail for whiskey! Important letters did not reach me either. I wrote a pithy letter to the Thai post office in Bangkok. As a result, the postman was fired and I was visited by a senior official of the Thai post. He had the new postman, a young man, with him, excused himself and urged the new postman to deliver the mail properly for us. Also, a new head of the local post office was appointed!
So advice: write to the head office in Bangkok!