Mailing to the Russian Federation: English or Cyrillic?

[SoNic_real_one]

Originally Posted by Wavebourn

Explanation of this translation: in Russia Postal Service does not bring boxes to recipients. They traditionally drop into mailbox a notice, so he must go to postoffice, stay in line, and take the parcel.

That's the case in most of former East European countries. That postal office is a special one with a customs agents on duty. They will ask you open the package and eventually levy import taxes on the content. Or at least sales tax (19-24%), based on customs "book value" of the items.

[dhaen]

I regularly send packages to Russia using the LATIN alphabet. Not just to major cities either. None has been lost as yet....

I occasionally send to Japan using Kanji for addressing. All my post office needs is "Japan" to be written somewhere in the addy.

Which is more efficient? It depend on whether the destination country has more than one portal for incoming mail. If they have, then it's best to use method 1.
On the other hand, method 2 reduces the chance of loss in the destination country.

[Wavebourn]

Here is the warning about shipments to Russia: no matter which alphabet you use, USPS delayed lots of mail according to Russian mail authorities.


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[Pano]

No surprise. US mail to Hawaii can take 6 weeks. The outlying territories are probably worse. Two month delay to Russia? Yeah, no doubt.

[theAnonymous1]

I haven't received any complaints about packages not arriving, so I will assume at this point that they both made it to their destinations.

Also, I would like to formally admit to being the forums most ignorant member for using "English" in place of "Latin". I guess that's what everyone else went to highschool for. I'll never know.

[Wavebourn]

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