01-20-2005, 05:38 AM
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#21 | | Senior Member
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| Finland Post Corporation
1st Class Letter 0.65 Euro, delivery the next day (usually) for domestic mail.
Finnish Post was 'commercialised', while not completely privatised in the 90's, so it has been going downhill ever since -- more expensive with worse service. But it does make a small profit at present... | 
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01-20-2005, 07:50 PM
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#22 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Des Moines, Iowa
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| Post in the UK usually arrives quite quickly. although the BBC Magazine online did an experiment that proved that the postal service was not perfect. They sent a postcard by overnight mail that never arrived at its seventh stop, the home of a man who said he routinely had problems receiving his post. I've also had some difficulty with mail to the US. I had a few items posted to me that took longer than they should have to reach me. Overall, however, I find that posting letters to the US is pretty quick. It costs 47p to send a letter to the US, approximately 85 cents.
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01-21-2005, 02:09 AM
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#23 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Alberta, Canada
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| I believe that Canada's postal system is a well run mess. But an organized mess. (Sort of like my room...) It gets the job done. Usually on time (unless something is time sensitive...), etc. Postage within Canada is $0.50. (it just went up), and I believe it is $0.85 for the US. More for international shipping. Do you want more info? www.canadapost.ca Enjoy.
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01-21-2005, 05:26 AM
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#24 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Gav In the UK post is delivered 5 days a week (mon - fri) and normally [in my experience] before 10 pm. You can also send items recorded or for next day but if you require. I think the system is actually quite good. The way some people go one you would think it was a thrid world system - it's not.
First class post is 27p - i think we have done away with 2nd class. | I don't know if youhave a different service in Scotland Gav, but here in England post is delivered and collected (UP UNTIL ABOUT LUNCHTIME RATHER THAN UNTIL THE EVENING) ON A sATURDAY AS WELL. wE ALSO STILL HAVE SECOND CLASS, WHICH IS ABOUT 6OR SEVEN PENCE CHEAPER AND TAKES ABOUT THREE DAYS.
Soprry about tha caps lock -in a rushnotime to retype.
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01-21-2005, 06:57 AM
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#25 | | Moderator
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| the 10pm is a typo... | |
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02-11-2005, 06:11 AM
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#26 | | Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Scotland
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| Impressive German efficiency!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4254265.stm
Makes a change to talk about some other countries postal service.
I especially like: Quote: |
Originally Posted by BBC A spokesman for the postal service told German publication Der Spiegel it had no right to remove mail from circulation simply because the addressee is dead. | | |
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02-11-2005, 08:14 AM
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#27 | | Fencing Expert
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The valley of the -hot- sun, NorCal
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| Sorry for the late response, I don't go into the watercooler that often.
La Poste, the French postal service, delivers mail 6 days a week: Mon-Sat.
To send a regular standard 21g letter anywhere in France (that includes oversees territories) it costs I believe 50 eurocent.
It will pretty much arrive within 2-3 days at destination.
I don't know about other countries, but in France, La Poste is also a bank. You can get money there, put your money, open a checking, savings account, and you might even be able to trade stocks over the internet!
La Poste is also an internet provider, and they have a Parcel service that IMO rivlas the likes of UPS and Fedex.
All in all, I don't think I have heard anyone in France ever complain about our postal service.
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02-11-2005, 10:02 AM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by veeco
All in all, I don't think I have heard anyone in France ever complain about our postal service.
| They wouldn't dare, we all know what the French are like, if there were complaints the postal workers would all take offence and go on strike, and all the other public services would come out in sympathy. Burning dead cow carcasses on the autoroute before you could say "Sacre bleu, La Poste est vraiment insupportable!" 
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02-11-2005, 03:50 PM
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#29 | | Curmudgeon-in-Chief
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| Wow, do the French really say "Sacre Bleu!"? I thought that was only in cartoons! 
Veeco, is the French postal system self-supporting, or does it receive a partial subsidy from the taxpayers? | |
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02-14-2005, 06:44 AM
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#30 | | Senior Member
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Wow, do the French really say "Sacre Bleu!"? I thought that was only in cartoons! | I was taking the p!ss.
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02-14-2005, 08:31 AM
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#31 | | Fencing Expert
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Originally Posted by Inquartata Wow, do the French really say "Sacre Bleu!"? I thought that was only in cartoons! | You can find the expression in any good dictionnary. That's about the only place you'll read it or hear it, though... Quote: |
Veeco, is the French postal system self-supporting, or does it receive a partial subsidy from the taxpayers?
| I think it gets some money from the government.
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