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[Tim Drayton]

thanks for the feedback tim, thats good news

sniper, so in pafos instead of a slip you get the parcels delivered at home and half of them never arrive?

Obviously Paphos is a world of its own. Postmen in Limassol urban area just deliver a slip to your own letter box advising you that you have a parcel to pick up. I have checked with my mum, who lived in a small village in Limassol district for a long time, and she says that there you also got a slip and had to collect the parcel from the post office in Limassol.

[Tim Drayton]

I'd like to say something about post to northern Cyprus - but there is nothing to say.

In the last three years I have sent two parcels, three sets of legal documents and two cheques (Premium Bonds to winning relatives).

NONE reached their destination. The Premium Bonds people were marvellous. They noticed that the cheques were not presented to any bank and re-issued them. The last cheque was delivered by courier.

The other items were lost, even thought they were registered.

Mersin - 10 postal service = non existent (as far as I am concerned.

If it passes through the Turkish postal service, forget it! It is a lottery as to whether it will ever arrive, and might well take a couple of months even if it does.

[Tim Drayton]

you can still get the mail even if you write the address out as just "Cyprus", you don't have to use "mersin 10" the GC post just hands it over to the Tc post. My grandma would get bank letters from the UK that were address as "mersin 10 Cyprus" she would always get the mail. The GC post would neatly cut the plastic sheet over the address window and erase the "mersin 10" with a black marker.

There was a time when I was living in Turkey and my parents were living in Limassol. There were no telephone connections between these two places, but I used to send letters addressed to "... Limasol, Kıbrıs Rum Yönetimi [Cyprus Greek Administration]" - this being the official appellation in Turkey for this part of the world. Astonishingly, these letters were always delivered, albeit with a considerable delay. Then out of the blue came the Internet and e-mail and I was able to make instant contact.

[denizaksulu]

I'd like to say something about post to northern Cyprus - but there is nothing to say.

In the last three years I have sent two parcels, three sets of legal documents and two cheques (Premium Bonds to winning relatives).

NONE reached their destination. The Premium Bonds people were marvellous. They noticed that the cheques were not presented to any bank and re-issued them. The last cheque was delivered by courier.

The other items were lost, even thought they were registered.

Mersin - 10 postal service = non existent (as far as I am concerned.

If it passes through the Turkish postal service, forget it! It is a lottery as to whether it will ever arrive, and might well take a couple of months even if it does.

That I did discover. NOTHING I sent to Mersin-10 has ever arrived.

My GC solicitors have been my postal deliverers. They offered and I accepted with no regrets.

[Tim Drayton]

I'd like to say something about post to northern Cyprus - but there is nothing to say.

In the last three years I have sent two parcels, three sets of legal documents and two cheques (Premium Bonds to winning relatives).

NONE reached their destination. The Premium Bonds people were marvellous. They noticed that the cheques were not presented to any bank and re-issued them. The last cheque was delivered by courier.

The other items were lost, even thought they were registered.

Mersin - 10 postal service = non existent (as far as I am concerned.

If it passes through the Turkish postal service, forget it! It is a lottery as to whether it will ever arrive, and might well take a couple of months even if it does.

That I did discover. NOTHING I sent to Mersin-10 has ever arrived.

My GC solicitors have been my postal deliverers. They offered and I accepted with no regrets.

I can just add one proviso here. Outgoing foreign mail posted at a main post office in Turkey WILL arrive, even parcels, in my experience - and without much delay. Incoming foreign mail and domestic mail is a very different matter.

[denizaksulu]

Good Morning and mind boggles.

[Tim Drayton]

Perhaps the RoC should, as a good will gesture, set up numbered post boxes on the government-controlled side of the crossings and make these available to Turkish Cypriots who wish to use them to receive mail from abroad.

[denizaksulu]

Perhaps the RoC should, as a good will gesture, set up numbered post boxes on the government-controlled side of the crossings and make these available to Turkish Cypriots who wish to use them to receive mail from abroad.

Quisas,quisas, quisas!!!

[Tim Drayton]

Perhaps the RoC should, as a good will gesture, set up numbered post boxes on the government-controlled side of the crossings and make these available to Turkish Cypriots who wish to use them to receive mail from abroad.

Quisas,quisas, quisas!!!

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (also known as Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps in English), a popular song by Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrés.

Is that what you are referring to, re yerro (if I may call you that)?

[denizaksulu]

Perhaps the RoC should, as a good will gesture, set up numbered post boxes on the government-controlled side of the crossings and make these available to Turkish Cypriots who wish to use them to receive mail from abroad.

Quisas,quisas, quisas!!!

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (also known as Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps in English), a popular song by Cuban songwriter Osvaldo Farrés.

Is that what you are referring to, re yerro (if I may call you that)?

Yep. Thats it. Thanks for the correction Tim.

I love the smooth tone of Nat King Cole