General Forum

I made a trade with MariusDi and received his package within two and a half months. We agreed to a trade on May 12th - I mailed on that day and he mailed on the 13th. I received his package on July 24th. He's not received his cards, but I see over 20 trades completed with him since mine and am wondering if I did something wrong (or different).

I used PayPal as I always do on international mail, but from there I either sent in a #10 envelope or in a photo mailer - I don't recall. The international postage provides a tracking number, but apparently it's somewhat useless because you cannot file a claim on it (I've tried and that service is not part of that rate base). Any ideas?

I sent Marius about 50 cards in 9 pocket sheets in a large manila envelope with stamps.  He reported it received in about 3 weeks time.

I sent the cards from my break about 3 weeks ago. I used #10 envelopes and/or photomailers. Aycee (Netherlands) received his cards on the 10th. Mike9020 (England) received his on the 11th. TheEzzy (Lithuania) still hasn't received his cards.

I heard back from Marius yesterday that the post office in Lithuania called to tell him that they were returning my PWE. I don't know if this is the initial or subsequent one I sent him. Any updates on yours Chuck to TheEzzy or from anyone else mailing to Lithuania?

My theory is that maybe the address format may have been wrong. I generally just copy and paste to avoid misspellings and such, but if I recall there was an issue when filling out the address label to where it's not as simple as copying the first line to fill the first line and so on, and I may have put them in the incorrect order. I did ask Marius if he'd updated his address because it didn't look exactly from what I recall it being.

I must share that I received his initial envelope and when I told him I felt bad that he hadn't received his (even a month later) so I mailed him more cards he felt like he needed to send me some more, too. Lo and behold I received his second set of cards, too.

TheEzzy received his cards on 24 Aug.  So it took about a month.  I'll send you the address (format) I used.

I just mailed off my first trade with TheEzzy today. Did two with Marius and both were fine. Both times though the special characters they use in their alphabet confused the postal clerk in trying to get it typed in. (Same clerk iirc). The one today to TheEzzy had the same characters but was no trouble getting input into the computer. 

It didn't help that I had never hand written them before trading with Marius so the letter forms weren't perfect I'm sure, to combine with my somewhat illegible handwriting to begin with. But they both got to him fairly quickly, I think about two and a half to three weeks. 

Marius just informed me that he finally received a package from me! It's the third one I'd sent and included some of the initial trade as I had some dupes of what he requested. It took a total of 8 months and 2 weeks. Not sure what the holdup was but we did make an adjustment on his address per his postal service - they asked that we put the telephone number on the address, and I did, and it got there! I'm thankful.

You're not alone. I also sent an envelope to Lithuania to Giedrius which never arrived. My cards came after a few weeks.  Not sure what's going on.