Is the postal service reliable for international parcels/letters?
It’s much more reliable sending out than receiving, but I suspect the fault is often on the other side. I send and receive an enormous amount of letters and packages. When I’m worried about the contents perhaps getting lost, I send it with the recommended service, which is unexpensive, and guaranteed to arrive. Some of the things sent to me were lost, but I’m pretty sure if the senders on the other side took the same precaution they would have reached me. That said, our postal service is very stuck-up compared to other countries’. At the time of writing, you cannot send anything other than paper without filling a form and paying an extra 1000 LP (less than a dollar), and before you can send CDs or tapes you have to go through the General Security to have them viewed and stamped. It’s retarded, I know. But, eventually you get the hang of it.
