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Reader question: Mail problems in Chiang Mai

By Submitted Message
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February 19 2016

Dear readers,

Are there more people having problems with mail delivery? Here in Chiang Mai, we regularly miss mail.

Have already been to the local post office, but they say that everything that comes in from Bangkok will be delivered to us. I do find it annoying. Missing mail from USA, Netherlands, France. This isn't fun anymore.

Does anyone know if there is somewhere to inquire about this?

Yours faithfully,

Nicole

Number of times read: 161

20 Responses to “Reader Question: Postal Problems in Chiang Mai”

  1. march says up
    19 February 2016 at 11: 23

    Haha do you ever miss mail? Almost all mail does not arrive in my experience. Many friends and acquaintances have sent me New Year cards. Didn't see a single card just to name an example.

    • Max Bosloper says up
      19 February 2016 at 13: 19

      Hello dear people, yes this is a big problem the post is soooooooooooo. Corrupt, really don't understand that nothing is being done about it !! Already sent so many cards to Pattaya, also to a school never arrived, yuck sickening! max

    • ruud says up
      19 February 2016 at 20: 49

      What strikes me is that handwritten mail in particular does not arrive.
      All important things like a bank and of course the inescapable tax authorities apparently do.
      Perhaps the problem is more in the postman's reading skills?
      I can't read it, so it goes in the trash.

    • Guus says up
      20 February 2016 at 01: 47

      In my experience, if there is a sticker or stamp with priority on the envelope, it always arrives. Without this sticker it arrives less often. Try it. I never have problems with the mail again.

  2. Gerard Kopphol says up
    19 February 2016 at 11: 36

    Very unfortunate but you are not alone I also miss mail regularly. Area Nakhon Ratchasima. Already received the strangest answers as being an explanation why. The post of issue point, 25 km from here, to my house also takes two weeks.

  3. Ton says up
    19 February 2016 at 11: 46

    this is a positive message.
    I have been corresponding with Thai friends for 3 years now, and I also regularly send small things in an envelope or small package. So far everything has still arrived and well received. This concerns mail to Phayao Province, Dokkhamthai District. A letter normally takes a week, but sometimes it takes 10-12 days. So I have only good experiences. Also the return mail from Thailand to here is no problem. Usually 6-8 days. Am I lucky! 😉

  4. Luc says up
    19 February 2016 at 12: 09

    Since the beginning of this year, my girlfriend in Bang Kapi has also not received any of my mail in her mailbox (from Belgium). Think if they don't care anymore in Bangkok, they put a big container in front of the door and fill it (just kidding) 🙂

  5. Peter says up
    19 February 2016 at 12: 10

    Have lived in zip code area 10140 for nine years. Roughly speaking, the mail always arrived for the first 6 years. The last few years have been a drama, not even half of them arrive. TIT!!!!

  6. Christian H says up
    19 February 2016 at 12: 30

    Mail failures do not only occur in Chiang Mai, but throughout Thailand.
    With us (in Cha-Am) bills for internet and telephone arrive irregularly. You have to keep an agenda yourself to pay yourself without a bill.
    Envelopes with a "bulge" are sometimes opened and, if they are forwarded later, this is clearly noticeable.
    It is guaranteed not to go well around the holidays such as Christmas, New Year, Songkran.

  7. Henry says up
    19 February 2016 at 12: 44

    Living in Nonthaburi for 7 years nothing has never arrived. Have nothing but praise for ThaiPost. You can even send mopeds by ThaiPost. From Bangkok to Pukhet it costs barely 1600 Baht
    If you have problems, you can still send by registered mail, costs a few Baht more, and you can track your shipment via ThaiPost tracking.

  8. ThailandJohn says up
    19 February 2016 at 13: 07

    Hahaha, I live in Huai Yai and often have the same problems. A lot of mail just doesn't arrive. We also visited the local post office several times, but that didn't bring any improvement. And it still is. So we will have to live with it. And the worst thing is that the Dutch government has no understanding for this. For example, annual statements that do not arrive and you cannot have them sent by e-mail and you will not receive a duplicate. But we'll have to deal with it.

  9. John says up
    19 February 2016 at 13: 46

    What works for me at the moment is a mailbox at the GPO (general post office).

  10. January says up
    19 February 2016 at 14: 48

    The mail is opened by the postal worker, there is something of his liking in it, it disappears into his pocket,
    mail is then discarded. If there is nothing valuable in it, the mail will also be thrown away.
    Not a rooster crowing about it.

  11. Martin says up
    19 February 2016 at 14: 49

    You can request annual statements with didi id.
    Log in to UWV or SVB.
    The mail from the Netherlands often does not reach me either.
    Sent several times by registered mail to the Netherlands for 900 baht and they did not arrive either.
    Track and Trace then stops at Bangkok.

  12. Lung addie says up
    19 February 2016 at 15: 17

    Everyone has their own experiences. Mine are very positive so far and this has been for 6 years. As a radio amateur I receive a lot of mail from just about all corners of the world. This amounts to a dozen reception transmissions per week and are acknowledgment cards ( qsl ) of radio connections made. The envelope contains a specific card, a self-addressed envelope for the answer and usually 1 or 2 USD for the stamp, card printing and report labels to be purchased by me. According to the feedback I get, most cards all arrive, both incoming and outgoing. A fellow radio amateur from Chiang Mai had a different experience. Many cards did not “get” there. Apparently a local postman noticed there was 1 or 2 USD in those shipments…. after complaint and understanding the snoodard everything goes correctly again. Every month I receive a package from Belgium in which about 300 of these cards, sent to the UBA qsl office, are sent to me and these mail packages also always arrive with a lapse of 10 to 12 days. I live just next to the head office of the Ampheu and I am well known there because they regularly have shipping work to do by me. People are often surprised when they have to send something to New Caledonia, Mauritius or some other exotic country these people have never heard of, but it all works out fine. Apparently I'm very lucky reading all this.

  13. jm says up
    19 February 2016 at 20: 02

    Send everything in Thai, it will arrive then.
    Or even better, give it to someone who goes to Thailand and they post it there.
    Or even better, send it with DHL, guaranteed delivery, subject to payment.
    JM Belgium

  14. TH.NL says up
    19 February 2016 at 20: 38

    Indeed. Mail from the Netherlands to Chiang Mai has simply not arrived for the past 2 years. Ridiculous. Who does what? Complaining to the post office does not help.

  15. aad van vliet says up
    20 February 2016 at 02: 35

    So the problem occurs regularly and has been discussed before. Also a few weeks ago and then there was the suggestion to add the Thai address to the 'English' address because some mail sorters don't seem to recognize the English address. We once put that into practice, as follows.
    First we sent a letter to ourselves with only the address in English. It never arrived. So the next letter with the Thai address did arrive!
    Because we had never received mail sent from NL, we also had that mail sent with an added Thai address. And it also arrived without fail!
    So adding the address in Thai seems to work. We had a Thai acquaintance translate our address into Thai. That text can then be printed directly on the envelope if you know how to do it.

    Or a scan of the text scan can then be printed, cut out and pasted and added.

    I think it's worth having several readers try it out and report back? Can the editors make a 'subject' of that so that it can be followed because it will take some time of course, but it is very important for all of us I think.

    And the remark about registered mail in Thailand is also correct because it always arrives in Thailand for little money. Business mail also always seems to arrive.

    Apparently our friends from EMS post have also understood this problem because they have increased the price for sending a simple letter internationally to 1300 baht! I would use that (EMS or DHL) for very important mail but only for that.
    We also sent registered mail from here to NL and that also arrived but as follows. The tracking information does indeed stop in Bangkok, but that has the following interesting reason. Our acquaintance in NL received a message that a letter had arrived for him. So he went to pick it up and guess what? That the post in NL had used its own code instead of the Thai, international (!), code! When asked why, the response was only a shrug. Well-known quality of the Dutch 'service'!
    If anyone has relations with TNT post, would they like to ask why?

  16. F.van.Dijk says up
    20 February 2016 at 11: 06

    Dear blog readers experienced it yourself after moving from HH to banglamung
    no mail for two months. Complaint lodged at the main post office in Laksi
    got an exuus mail and the other day the mail was handed over by the chief personally from the office
    Banglamung brought to my house. And asked please call me for problem with delivery (he also received mail from Laksi with reprimand) So mail to Laksi
    g FvD

  17. DanielVL says up
    20 February 2016 at 14: 09

    mail comes to me in CM through Phra Singh post office. Always arrives from Belgium. I do send a destination address in English combined with Thai, to be stuck on the shipment or package.


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