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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Moving in Thailand and being available for mail?
Reader question: Moving in Thailand and being available for mail?
Dear readers,
I move quite regularly in Thailand for various reasons. Currently my place of employment is in Pattaya. Every time I have to give my new address to various authorities with the result that I never receive mail at some addresses.
I also test the new addresses myself by sending letters to myself on the spot and from NL. I'm getting pretty depressed about this. My question to you: do SVB, tax and pension companies also accept a PO Box address in Thailand?
I can also ask the various authorities themselves. SVB indicates that it will answer questions within 3 weeks. Perhaps there are people who already work with PO Box addresses and then my question is, does it work? Does 'people' accept this or, for example, only as a correspondence address?
Thanks in advance for information.
Regards,
Piet
Yes! But that is not a problem in the Netherlands either. The problem is in Thailand.
If you live in a peripheral area, it may happen that a postal worker does not read Western script, or does not want to check unclear figures in his administration-by-name, and then puts it in a mailbox box that is somewhat similar in terms of number.
The recipient of your mail then sees something that he does not understand and does he have the decency to return it to the post? Well, I do, but you'll feed them who will then deposit your mail in the circular archive. And then it's gone and you have no redress from the tax authorities of 'mail not received and therefore term expired'.
I advise against it.
By the way, I have a correspondence address in NL for SVB and tax authorities and pension, and they scan it and email it. Perfect? No, not at all, because they sometimes go away with the camper for six weeks. You will never get it perfectly waterproof.
I myself have – especially in recent years – very bad experiences with the post; both from Thailand ( I have not received De Tegel from De Nederlandse for 3 years , although I had it years before ; the secretary does not understand it either because they do send the magazine ) . And mail from the Netherlands is also regularly lost; especially if it is not registered. I live in a small town below Kon Kean.
I don't know if a PO box is acceptable.
Even if possible, the fact remains that letter mail to and from Thailand is not very reliable.
To solve this, I ask authorities and companies to communicate electronically as much as possible.
If that is not possible, I have a contact address with family in the Netherlands.
Urgent and important mail is scanned by them and then sent by email.
Have you ever thought about my government? Do you need a PC / smartphone with internet. I myself receive everything by email from the various authorities. Rarely have mail. Only the life certificate from the SVB.
Would definitely recommend using a trusted correspondence address in the Netherlands. If only to be on the safe side: scan and email. In Pattaya there is a mailbox service at the Jomtien Complex Condotel. But every post office also provides that service.
I am sick and tired of the Thai Postal Service. Every once in a while I have to go to the Post Office because once again no letter has been delivered or arrived. Recently again with the SVB Life Certificate, was collecting dust in the post office and Income statement never arrived at me. After many quarrelsome emails, back and forth, with the SVB, they finally sent me the blank forms by email. Also only after an official complaint from me. Life proof my pension fund never had / arrived with the result that pension was stopped. Ditto with tax letters from the Netherlands. Worthless institution that Thai Post. Better use homing pigeons.
I used to have problems with receiving mail.
Let me take a closer look at how that works. Mail goes from one office to another and often does not arrive at the right place due to a lack of correct information
a. zip code (may be slightly different for the district where you live (eg pattaya 20160 or
20150)
b. clearly stating the Moo number
c. clear indication of district and sub-district
d. clearly state the number of the street and house
e. residence
f. country
If this data is displayed properly, then little can go wrong.
Thai authorities also sometimes use the wrong Moo number or zip code, despite your correct statement.
SVB and PFZ use the correct address given by me and I have almost no problem receiving the mail, Nationale Nederlanden cannot process the Thai address because it is too large. Still, things are better with the mention of the moo number and subdistrict.
The guys who deliver the mail have a hungry wage. I showed them which letters from the Netherlands are important.
In addition, I now give them a tip, a maximum of 2x 100 baht per month, when they deliver bills or letters to me.
Me happy, postboy happy
I've lived at the same address for 27 years and the mail still doesn't arrive with the regularity of the clock. From the airport, the mail first goes to Bangkok where it is sorted by province. For me Chonburi Province mail sorting Si Racha where it is sorted by zip code What people do in the Netherlands is, to abbreviate, put the zip code before the place of residence, which is wrong. the sorting does not see a postal code because it must be for Chonburi Province. Or they do zip code and Chonburi, which is also wrong, as Chonburi is the city and it doesn't have my zip code. So letters gone! One big mess.
Due to the far-reaching automation in the Netherlands, the fields that must be filled in in the address file are insufficient, that's where the problem starts, a mixed up address never arrives here in Thailand, and they don't really want to fill it in manually.
You must point out to them their duty of care. You can submit a complaint to the Dutch Bank in Amsterdam, see website.
You must do everything you can to send your changed address, which can be done very easily from Thailand by "Registered Mail", you can follow this via the Thai-post website Track & Trace system, costs are approximately 80 Bath per letter, after The letter will be at the address in the Netherlands within 7 working days.
Your residence address may be different from your postal address, both must be known to tax, pension, bank, etc
For over 20 years I have had a PO Box in Pattaya. So far I have not had any problems with the delivery of pension funds, SVB, government, etc.
Douwe At which agency or post office do you have this mailbox ??
thanks in advance
Piet
Ditto ! Have had a mailbox at the post office in Soi Praisani for 13 years (costs 500 baht per year) and so far never had a problem with receiving mail, also from the above mentioned authorities and my bank!
Hello, I think everything is digitally available nowadays and can therefore be read out digitally for you on the internet or mobile. I don't get mail from anywhere anymore because most authorities want to send everything digitally themselves. Banks/insurance, etc. Ask the authorities where you still receive mail from what the possibilities are.
SVB refuses to send mail digitally. Banks also refuse. According to them, everything must be done by snail mail because, again according to them, this is safer. Do not even send it digitally to mailbox Mijn Overheid.
Mention your telephone number with the address details, with a bit of luck they will call you ...
Wouldn't it just be possible that some Thai bosses - especially in the countryside - can't read English / Dutch but ONLY Thai. So what do you do with the mail that you can't read, indeed, you throw it neatly in the blue bins that are everywhere. Also understood that some people who live far away don't get delivered just because it's too far away for the postman. When I still lived in HH I went to the post office once a month, gave them my address in Thai and English and then just got my 'mail package', no problem. Order online, get my mail from the Netherlands, never had a problem….