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Home » Reader question » Reader question: How long does it take for a letter to arrive from Thailand to the Netherlands?
Reader question: How long does it take for a letter to arrive from Thailand to the Netherlands?
Dear readers,
My Thai friend has asked her sister to send something from the Isaan to the Netherlands (fits in an envelope). That was more than two weeks ago now. How long does it take for something like this to be over with the normal mail?
Regards,
Eef
My experience was with regular mail: from Bangkok a week, from Isaan 2+ weeks. But it can also take a little longer if the mail is slow or customs intercept the shipment and want to inspect it. If you are unlucky, you will be 3-4 weeks further. And maybe even longer if you let the post gather dust…
The other way around (the Netherlands to Thailand) is comparable.
Dear Robert V,
Is true.
A shipment can also be sent to the postman of the village or region.
Once sent a pacifier (baby) to Thailand and was on the road for four weeks (had no idea what it was).
The same applies for the way back to the Netherlands.
I used to send money by letter and always arrived after a week (postman knew this).
Count on two weeks.
Yours faithfully,
Erwin
PS
Ask an employee to put a priority sticker on it, saves a week.
Regards,
Erwin
In 16 years of Thailand I have learned that not everyone can read our script at post offices. Yes, the man / woman behind the counter because they have to have a stamp printed, but whether it is also the case later in the processing?
So, in addition to the address label, I have always written/printed the country of destination very clearly in Thai language and ensured that it says large AIRMAIL. Then the mail to NL normally takes a maximum of 10 weekdays.
Important mail is always sent by registered mail and nothing has ever been lost.
On mail to Thailand I always stick an address label in two languages for reasons as stated. From NL always with track & trace so you can follow it.
So just have a little patience; if the mail has not been sent with T&T or without an airmail sticker, it will simply arrive later.
My experience with the mail:
– from Thailand to the Netherlands: 10 working days
– from the Netherlands to Thailand: about the same if the mail arrives at all. At my previous address I never received mail from my Dutch bank, which at the time sent monthly statements.
Same experience with register sending from Udon Thani.
Easy to track where the post is and normally 10 working days.
This is mainly due to incorrectly filling in the Thai address. Especially the zip code is entered incorrectly. I spent years - no kidding - trying to explain to my bank, SVB, pension fund, etc. that in Thailand every city or village has its own zip code and not, as in NL, every street. Do not use abbreviations either, but write the full address. It is now being done reasonably well and so far letters are arriving again.
I abbreviate everything in Thai and English ตำบล = ต (tambon, T.) Etc. Being bilingual already takes up a lot of space, let alone if I write everything out in full. Mostly going well so far. Out of 50 letters, I think 1 was lost and 1 went on a weeks-long tourist route.
I understood from various institutions that those long Thai addresses do not fit into their computer systems. There's always something missing.
hi, i regularly send to vtiendin , it takes 4 days Belgium – thailand, parcels or letters
Well, that was registered very quickly, wasn't it?
If I send a letter with the Prior stamp "World" in Belgium, it takes between 7 and 12 days to Isaan from the Brussels region.
I don't blame the post in Thailand because I once made a mistake. Zip code and still arrived!
And indeed at the end of leave, tickets sent from Bangkok at the end of August always arrive around October, not a priority.
Registered mail arrived at an old (hotel) address of mine. Simply accepted by the hotel staff, only made available to me a few weeks later. Too late to avoid a lawsuit…. Also normal mail, from ING, to which I have to respond before a certain date, only arrives in Isaan weeks later. In short, mail is shit… Both incoming and outgoing.
A few years ago: posted at the post office of Don Muang airport and .. 3 days later in Breda.
Last year a letter from us was on the road for 3 months.
Christmas cards sent in November arrived in April the following year, but registered mail to my work arrived in 5 days…
My mail always arrives in the Netherlands after 4 weeks.
I'll drop it off at a counter.
1 time When asked about sending mail, the counter employee said that I had to hand the mail over to the counter.
A few days later I wanted to send the mail, the counter was closed.
I didn't feel like taking the mail with me again and put it on the mailbox in front of the post office.
The mail never arrived.
I'll put Holland,The Netherlands,Europe on the envelope.
That's because Holland also occurs in other countries.
The tip in Thai is a good one
My income assessment from the tax authorities sent from the Netherlands on June 21, 2019 arrived
on August 15.
I had to pay the tax bill before August 2.
Thanks to the contact with my tax consultant, I was able to transfer this on time!
I have written a complaint to head office before, no response.
The local post office Jomtien indicated that the handling along the way did not always go smoothly.
L. Lagemaat, before there were sites like 'mijnsvb' and 'mijnbelastingdienst', I had a correspondence address in NL for those matters. Brother dear in my case, in your case that could be the tax consultant. They scan the form and I get an email. You can send it by post later if necessary. Then you are informed and you can respond.
The current 'my' sites are a great improvement. Nothing will ever get lost unless you have to sit and grind yourself...
I always send registered mail, it usually takes a week. Mail sent from the Netherlands also arrives in a week or a little longer.
Have had a lot of experience lately with the application of three pension funds and the living statements and the confirmations that have already been returned.
Now, after about five to six weeks of receiving forms back and forth, everything has now been completed.
Overall, I have nothing to complain about the post office here in Pasang city. They know me and are very helpful. It was different when I first moved here 15 years ago. We had a postman here on our route who had a serious alcohol problem, I don't have to explain the rest.
We therefore advise you to use a post box, and do not let the postman deliver to your home.
Jan Beute.