I’ve sent two postcards to Russia since spring, one in May and one in July, and they’ve both arrived. I have two more recent postcards currently travelling there.
I haven’t been having any issues sending to Russia. The travel time varies madly though, least was two weeks and most, so far, was almost 40 days.
In the last two months alone, I’ve successfully sent (and they’ve been registered) 9 postcards to Russia. Your post office has definitely got it wrong. There’s never been any interruption to post to Russia
I had some slow down initially but recently they have been arriving ok especially if to Moscow and St Petersburg citiý area
Thank you for that info, I’m going to have “a frank airing of views” with them!
Hi everyone. I’m looking for a bit of advice. I have 7 expired travelling postcards going to Russia and Postcrossing has now blocked my account. They range in times from 94 days to 340 days. I’ve messaged Postcrossing but they haven’t replied. Looking at this thread, it doesn’t seem like anyone else is having this problem, but if anyone has any pearls of wisdom on this subject, i’d love to hear them because i’m really missing sending official postcards.
Yes that does happen, you will have wait until some of your travelling and expired postcards to be registered by their recipients before they will allow you to send more postcards, this hobby is all about patience.
Discussing on another thread, I am wondering if it is a regional issue, most of my expired postcards to Russia where posted in the North West Area, yet from London postcards are travelling between 40 & 60 days.
Even domestically, post is all over the place, I’m still awaiting postcards in the British Isles Round Robin.
You are not alone!
I currently have 7 expired cards to Russia, ranging from 68 days to more than 300. I have 12 expired cards in total - close to 10% expiry in 2022. I did have 17 cards reach Russia, though.
Postcrossing hasn’t blocked my account however, so I wonder what the criteria for blocking are?
Maybe if a big enough percentage of your cards going to Russia are registered, then it doesn’t matter so much if you have some going there that have expired.
I have an official to Russia that is now 12 days off expiry…
But ironically I received an official from Russia yesterday postmarked 19.12!!!
UK post is up the chute at the moment.
Had 3 Christmas cards yesterday postmarked 14.12 on second class stamps.
Outbound, my officials seem to be taking an age (7/20/21/28/40/48 days)… Yet inbound I have received in the past week mail from France/
US/Canada/Russia/Singapore all postmarked from 19.12 onwards.
So it feels like dispatching at Heathrow is a bit of a mess, plus the domestic network also?
Also a reminder that for the last 11 months there has not been any direct route between the UK and Russia with mail being routed via a third party country.
I was dicussing with a friend in aviation back in the spring last year that Turkey at one point was one of the countries that was the exchange point for Russia - EU/UK Mail.
It definitely is! I received a card from Israel on Tuesday which had been franked in the North Wales / Chester sorting office, when I live in South England. What’s that about?
Received today a first class Christmas card posted 15.12 and a card from France postmarked 03.01.
The mind boggles.
Update - my official to Russia was registered today after 51 days’ transit.
Promptly drew another address from the system to… Russia!!!
I’m definitely getting more Russian addresses, presumably because a lot of countries (including the US) can’t send there, so the high number of Russian addresses are being shared among much fewer Postcrossers.
I previously had the option to send to repeated countries on (because it doesn’t affect which countries you receive from) but then I was getting Russian cards every time which meant every single card being 40+ days and not getting new addresses very often!
I’m also suddenly getting lots of Russian addresses. I think a factor this month in particular is that, last month, German postcrossers were much more active because of their charity push, so they took a lot of Russian addresses that we would normally have taken. And now, we’re getting back to normal, which means those addresses are being shared with us too.
I am from the Netherlands, but I have the same problem. Last year I have had a lot of expired postcards unfortunately. From different countries, but especially China and Russia. My accounts has been blocked due to the amount of expired cards to Russia.
Now all I can do is send new postcards to those particular addresses and hope they will arrive this time. Otherwise I cannot send postcards anymore. Stamps are very expensive in the Netherlands, so I’m not happy with this.
Hey all!
Those are my latest 6 expired cards, just Russia and Belarus. In fact, the only card that was delivered to Russia in the past 12 months was addressed to a public children’s’ library.
Looks like I am unlucky but hopefully PC won’t block my account!
Maybe I don’t get this properly, but I don’t quite understand why your account has been blocked?
I am a very frequent Postcrosser and currently have as many as 19 expired cards; 8 of them to Russia (or even 9 - one is officially to ‘Ukraine’ but is in the Crimea and the address actually says ‘Russia’. I don’t have much hope of that one). There were also several more that have recently dropped off the list, having exceeded the 365 day mark.
In the past I’ve had even larger numbers of expired cards to Russia. However in 10 years of Postcrossing my account was never blocked in any way.
Is your account setting for ‘sending to repeated countries’, so that you draw an excessive proportion of Russian addresses?