What is you countries average time for mail to be traveling?

SAM__44 · October 19, 2021, 7:00pm

Hi, how long does the mail to travel in your country? Here in the USA mail takes 4 to 6 days to travel (used to be 1-3).

Lhyz · October 19, 2021, 10:12pm

I haven’t tried domestic traveling through Norway but in Spain to send a letter from the same town (let’s say, a couple streets apart) it takes A WEEK.
Maybe it is a little bit faster is very big cities but my town is not so small.

Also, something really useful in Postcrossing statics is that you can kind of estimate if your postcard sent to X country is taking longer than usual.
For example; let’s say I have a Travelling postcard to China and it’s been around for 29 days and I’m thinking “Is that too much or is it normal?”.
Then what I do is: I go to the “Countries” section, go to Norway, go to the #1 postcrosser user and check their statics.
I go to “China” and check the average “sent” and the average “received” time.
Because the top 3 postcrossers have sent a huge amount of postcards, this is actually a nice “average” calculation (true that Covid still delays everything).
Then, depending on the difference of the average “sent” time to China and the time my postcard is taking, I know if it is still on track or if it might be delayed/missed.
At least it helps me a bit with the waiting.

KislayaKristi · October 20, 2021, 3:14pm

По Беларуси идёт не больше 4 дней.

SAM__44 · October 20, 2021, 3:51pm

English please

geo_ · October 20, 2021, 4:05pm

First class (85p) should take 1 working day* although occasionally takes longer. Second class (66p) takes 2-3 working days*, although sometimes arrives in 1 day and other times takes more than 3!

*Working days include Saturdays

KitKat7576 · October 20, 2021, 4:22pm

Domestic? About 2-3 days I believe. This is for the Netherlands

kotona · October 20, 2021, 4:25pm

The mail delivery of Finland has gone worse lately. From Finland to Finland it takes 2-10 working days (without Saturdays and Sundays) but the mail from Finland to Germany (for example) goes in the same time or even faster.

Mattie07 · October 20, 2021, 5:29pm

Here if you don’t post the postcard on a holiday, or a day mail isn’t delivered or processed, it will generally arrive the next day.

Schohema · October 20, 2021, 5:43pm

One or two working days.

JuleDan · October 23, 2021, 8:51pm

In Austria:

Economy 0,74 Euro: 2-4 days (sometimes only one day or more)
Priority 0,85 Euro: 1-2 (sometimes longer)

Yojansz · October 24, 2021, 3:49pm

If you send a postcard from venezuela, it takes like 160 days traveling… To receive a postcard in Venezuela it takes like 30-40 days