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SENDING MAIL TO TURKEY
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1.       kadnad1
89 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 12:09 am

How long does it take for mail to arrive at the recipients home in turkey? Im from England, and sent the parcel on the 5th feb to Tavas in denizli. when should it arrive?

2.       SERA_2005
668 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 12:18 am

Mail i have sent in the past has taken about 2 weeks,sometimes a little less.Be patient it will get there eventually!

3.       kadnad1
89 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 12:25 am

nooooooooo 2 weeks??? the woman at the post office lied to me! "3-5 working days" pffft. Late birthday present i guess...

4.       Deli_kizin
6376 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 12:35 am

it takes a few days to get to turkey.. but it takes over a week for the post İNSİDE turkey to get to the right address

5.       English_boy
15 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 12:42 am

I recently sent a letter on the 17th January that arrived on the 5th, 19 days later and yet a card I sent for valentine's on Thursday only took 12 days

6.       kedycan
165 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 12:57 am

it might take about years as well, one can never be sure

7.       kedycan
165 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 01:00 am

or rather than asking "how much does it take", ask whether it will arrive or not...that must be the question involving a little bit of exageration..

8.       bebish
31 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 09:50 am

I have twice sent mail to turkey and on both occasions was informed it never arrive

9.       azade
1606 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 10:55 am

The smaller the town the longer it takes for it to arrive. Some places the recipient gets a note to pick it up at the PTT, but that also tends to never arrive to they have to go to the PTT and check if it's there. ALso very time consuming generally...
Once my father sent me a package with a couple of books and it took it a month to arrive and I wasn't even living in a village or anything. It took an entire afternoon and I also had to pay a ridiculous high VAT grrrrr, a very bad unexpected expense when living in a country like Turkey.
Sending packages is generally not the best idea imo as things tend to get lost.

Mail is usually not a problem but you never know how long time it takes, it varies +/- 20 days

10.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 04:55 pm

I sent some packages to Turkey several times in the past (with registered posts).
None of them got lost and arrived in 4- 5 days.
What are you trying to do here? eh?
Trying to look for a reason to criticize Turkey? eh?

11.       ninja
157 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 06:40 pm

According to my friends who have lived in Turkey for over 10 years as expatriates, it took very long time to receive mail or parcels in the past. But now it is very much improved. I have sent small packages by speedpost from Hong Kong and it took only 2-3 working days to get to Istanbul. Yet I have not tried sending anything by surface mail or normal airmail. I would guess it should take at least one week by airmail. For remote areas or villages it seems normal to take longer time though.

12.       Roswitha
4132 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 07:04 pm

We send books to Istanbul and it took two months. Than we send something to Antalya and it was there within a week.

13.       thehandsom
7403 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 07:08 pm

Quoting Roswitha:

We send books to Istanbul and it took two months. Than we send something to Antalya and it was there within a week.


My be, you did misspell the address for istanbul!!
When it is the case, PTT, go and check every single street and ask the residents one by one if they knew the person!!
Of course it takes time..

14.       SERA_2005
668 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 07:21 pm

Yes it just depends sometimes it can take about 2 weeks other times in my case it has taken about 6 or 7 days.All the mail i have sent to Ankara has been delivered! Have faith they are doing their best,fingers crossed it will get there eventually.

15.       azade
1606 posts
 13 Feb 2008 Wed 08:21 pm

Time really depends on each and single individual who has anything to do with your mail. If they take too many tea breaks it may take an extra week

16.       emjay
9 posts
 14 Aug 2013 Wed 07:48 am

Hello friends, I´d like to send my friend a birthday surprise with a parcel to Turkey. I need translations help from E to TR lütfen

1) I hope I am not late, and this mail reaches you just in time for your birthday.

2) Many happy returns

3) when signing off, how do i write "Love from Singapore, (signs name)" ?

4) when saying a great surprise for (name), am i right to write "(name) için büyük bir sürpriz"?

 

Yardımlarınız için çok teşekkür ederim!

17.       scalpel - -
203 posts
 14 Aug 2013 Wed 02:54 pm

 

Quoting emjay

Hello friends, I´d like to send my friend a birthday surprise with a parcel to Turkey. I need translations help from E to TR lütfen

1) I hope I am not late, and this mail reaches you just in time for your birthday.

2) Many happy returns

3) when signing off, how do i write "Love from Singapore, (signs name)" ?

4) when saying a great surprise for (name), am i right to write "(name) için büyük bir sürpriz"?

 

Yardımlarınız için çok teşekkür ederim!

 

1) Umarım geç kalmadım, bu mektup tam yaş gününde eline ulaşır.

2) Nice mutlu yıllara

3) Singapur´dan sevgilerle, (name) xxx

4) Yes, you are right : "(name) xxx için büyük bir sürpriz" .. but sometimes saying "küçük"(little/small) instead of "büyük" may make better sense .. 

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18.       burakk
309 posts
 14 Aug 2013 Wed 09:47 pm

my post didnt arrive to istanbul for 3 months. theres only 50% chance that the mail will get trough. normal letters and briefs are ok but packages are risky

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19.       emjay
9 posts
 15 Aug 2013 Thu 05:38 am

 

Quoting scalpel - -

1) Umarım geç kalmadım, bu mektup tam yaş gününde eline ulaşır.

2) Nice mutlu yıllara

3) Singapur´dan sevgilerle, (name) xxx

4) Yes, you are right : "(name) xxx için büyük bir sürpriz" .. but sometimes saying "küçük"(little/small) instead of "büyük" may make better sense .. 

 

Çok teşekkür ederim! Thank you for your help

@burakk: haha yea i read about it in the earlier posts, guess it´s about taking the risk {#emotions_dlg.lol_fast}

20.       hestia86
2 posts
 15 Aug 2013 Thu 12:10 pm

When we were in Turkey, we sent postcards from Göreme to Estonia and Finland. We were long home before the cards came: a bit damaged but still got here, one of them more than 2  and the other more than 3 weeks later. According to the stamps it had taken a week for them even to start moving from Göreme

Now i sent a small package to Göreme. It reached Istanbul in 9 days and hasn´t moved since... maybe it can be a Christmas present instead of birthday present

 

Update: the package was delivered. It took 2 weeks and 1 day - so, pretty good, i think



Edited (8/17/2013) by hestia86

21.       ikicihan
1127 posts
 15 Aug 2013 Thu 12:28 pm

Turkish post office service (PTT) does not work good, honest and fast.

Letters and postcards are ok, sooner or later they will reach to destination. What can be inside a small envelope to sell!

But packages, big packages, heavy packages, expensive packages are in danger. In the moving process in turkey, some packages disappear mysteriously. No record, no report... I think post office men make good profit by packages come from abroad! Goverment has zero care about this...

Anyway.

In my experience, it takes 2 weeks for istanbul, 1 week for ankara, 1 week to 1 month for other cities to reach the packages come from abroad.

i sent about 100 dollar valued big package to istanbul and happily it arrived. Later, i sent 300 valued pack and no one knows what happened to the package after six months!

If it is really important what you send, use private shipping companies such as dhl, ups, fedex... They never lost the packages! But the disadvantage is they are expensive and there is no way to jump over the custom tax.

22.       Umut_Umut
485 posts
 15 Aug 2013 Thu 12:35 pm

A different story from my side. I sent a bağlama to USA with PTT for an armenian friend. It reached there earlier than i expected. And bağlama was in a good condition. 

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23.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 15 Aug 2013 Thu 04:15 pm

 

Quoting hestia86

When we were in Turkey, we sent postcards from Göreme to Estonia and Finland. We were long home begore the cards came: a bit damaged but still got here, one of them in more than 2  and the other more than 3 weeks later. According to the stamps it had taken a week for it even to start moving from Göreme

Now i sent a small package to Göreme. It reached Istanbul in 9 days and hasn´t moved since... maybe it can be a Christmas present instead of birthday present

What did you send to Göreme? Pudding?

 

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24.       emjay
9 posts
 16 Aug 2013 Fri 09:54 am

 

Quoting scalpel - -

1) Umarım geç kalmadım, bu mektup tam yaş gününde eline ulaşır.

2) Nice mutlu yıllara

3) Singapur´dan sevgilerle, (name) xxx

4) Yes, you are right : "(name) xxx için büyük bir sürpriz" .. but sometimes saying "küçük"(little/small) instead of "büyük" may make better sense .. 

 

Hello guys before that, how should I write these to my friend? 

5) I am going to send a mail to you in Turkey

6) Let me know when you have received it

 

Teşekkür ederim!!  {#emotions_dlg.bigsmile}

 

25.       gokuyum
5050 posts
 21 Aug 2013 Wed 11:44 am

 

Quoting emjay

 

 

Hello guys before that, how should I write these to my friend? 

5) I am going to send a mail to you in Turkey

Sana Türkiye´ye bir posta gönderiyorum.

6) Let me know when you have received it

Alınca bana haber ver.

 

Teşekkür ederim!!  {#emotions_dlg.bigsmile}

 

 

 

26.       harp00n
3993 posts
 21 Aug 2013 Wed 05:47 pm

 

Quoting ikicihan

Turkish post office service (PTT) does not work good, honest and fast.

Letters and postcards are ok, sooner or later they will reach to destination. What can be inside a small envelope to sell!

But packages, big packages, heavy packages, expensive packages are in danger. In the moving process in turkey, some packages disappear mysteriously. No record, no report... I think post office men make good profit by packages come from abroad! Goverment has zero care about this...

Anyway.

In my experience, it takes 2 weeks for istanbul, 1 week for ankara, 1 week to 1 month for other cities to reach the packages come from abroad.

i sent about 100 dollar valued big package to istanbul and happily it arrived. Later, i sent 300 valued pack and no one knows what happened to the package after six months!

If it is really important what you send, use private shipping companies such as dhl, ups, fedex... They never lost the packages! But the disadvantage is they are expensive and there is no way to jump over the custom tax.

 

If you have trucking number, you can ask what happened to post office with it. They will reply you. On the other hand you can do this from their website. They are submitting all parcels from/to abroad, so they can reply. They are working better than others. For example UK Royal Mail has no record system thats why you can truck your parcel till entrance of the UK and than you have to wait with patient cause they are working like a turtle Even you can ask for your parcel, they cant reply you because of their system, cause they have no record (my personal experience). 

27.       ikicihan
1127 posts
 22 Aug 2013 Thu 02:32 am

 

Quoting harp00n

 

 

If you have trucking number, you can ask what happened to post office with it. They will reply you. On the other hand you can do this from their website. They are submitting all parcels from/to abroad, so they can reply. They are working better than others. For example UK Royal Mail has no record system thats why you can truck your parcel till entrance of the UK and than you have to wait with patient cause they are working like a turtle Even you can ask for your parcel, they cant reply you because of their system, cause they have no record (my personal experience). 

 

Unfortunatelly the tracking system is not free, they charge extra money for it.
Even if you have a tracking number, if your package get lost you can only ask where your package is. That is all, There is no return or no back payment unless you insured your package. Of course they charge extra money for insurance, too.

The question is why some packages which have no tracking number on it mysteriously disappear.

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