i need to send a letter to turkey, and a package. this is the daress i was given, does it nake sense, and will my package get there by this adress?

burgaz mahallesi
dulger sokak no.?
turkiye mugla milas

hahah, i know the number, but does the rest seem ok? And do packages get where they are supposed to go, in turkey?

Well ... if they look nice and have a present in them about 50% of the packages sent to me don't arrive.

I sent a parcel about 3 weeks ago to my friend who lives in a very small village and I was really dubious about the address as it didn't even have a house number. My friend told me that everyone knows him in the village...... my parcel arrived, intact, 8 days after it was posted!!! This is only the 2nd time I have sent anything, but to completely differenct parts of Turkey, but on both occasions the parcels arrived with no problems - although the first one took nearly 3 weeks to get there.

If what you have in the package is important, I would send it via UPS or some other company that you can track delivery. It is more expensive, but it is worth it. I always send my packages this way and they have always arrived within 3 to 5 days.

i try to get a quote on ups, but they ask for a postal code or zip code, but int he adress he game me, i see nothing like that. Is that a problem

I would indeed advice you to use ups or something if it's a present. I also sent something last year, but it never arrived .

I'm not sure how ups works.. if you're not sure you might contact them and ask.

I have sent several packages to Turkey and they have all arrived intact, and that's with the contents described on the outside too. They usually take 7/10 days to arrive. However, I have always sent them to my friend's place of work so perhaps that's why, I don't know. Another friend of mine has also sent me her address, but she hasn't set it out line by line so I haven't a clue. Now I've read some of these posts though I think I will send it to the college where she works.

Before I left Istanbul this time I left some gifts for my friend to post to another friend. She told me the postal service (cargo?) wouldn't accept it until the address was written in Turkish. Perhaps that's why some packages don't reach their destination . . . just a thought.

Hi Valeria,

Yes, you do need a postal code for UPS, but they should be able to find that for you.

Good luck.