China Post
Sending letters is quite an Adventure in the whole Adventure China... Every time I am courious about how much I have to pay this time...
The first letter - i was asking the post office lady twice and thrice - arrived in austria with a stamp 230 fen (=2 yuan 3 jiao 0 fen = 23 Eurocent)
For the second letter I had to pay 8 yuan, the lady at the kiosk at the 3gorgesdam told me, that my letter had overweight.
The third letter
Finally I found out, that letters to Austria cost 450 fen. I bought lots of stamps. the third and fourth one i just threw into a postbox. Still they didn't arrive...
Some more letters arrived in Chinese-record-time withing one week, even if I bought the stamps for them at the youth hostel, because the postoffice at Chengdu (!) didn't have enought stamps of that kind (450)... I just threw them into a post box, but in a VERY small town.
Inbetween I send a really huge box home, it should arrive at Vienna within 45 days and arrived within less than two weeks...
three days ago some more letters. I went to one postoffice. they told me, that i have to go to another post office, close to shizi. I went to shizi, found a post office. The clerk complained about the envelopes ... there should be some special ones... AND it was the wrong post office... so I went to the third one and threw them into the post office ... courious if they will arrive.
Some more letters today. same town as three days ago. another postoffice. I went in, the lady started to call around, finally told me, I have to pay 600 for the small ones and 800 for the big one...
I couldn't other than laughing... because finally for the large letter it was one readyprinted stamp 230, some additional stamps I put for reaching 540, and today the lady could hardly found enough space to add some more stamps for reaching 800... please, keep this envelope (if it reaches Austria...) I want to take a picture of that... :)
Courious what happens to the next letter... :D
The first letter - i was asking the post office lady twice and thrice - arrived in austria with a stamp 230 fen (=2 yuan 3 jiao 0 fen = 23 Eurocent)
For the second letter I had to pay 8 yuan, the lady at the kiosk at the 3gorgesdam told me, that my letter had overweight.
The third letter
Finally I found out, that letters to Austria cost 450 fen. I bought lots of stamps. the third and fourth one i just threw into a postbox. Still they didn't arrive...
Some more letters arrived in Chinese-record-time withing one week, even if I bought the stamps for them at the youth hostel, because the postoffice at Chengdu (!) didn't have enought stamps of that kind (450)... I just threw them into a post box, but in a VERY small town.
Inbetween I send a really huge box home, it should arrive at Vienna within 45 days and arrived within less than two weeks...
three days ago some more letters. I went to one postoffice. they told me, that i have to go to another post office, close to shizi. I went to shizi, found a post office. The clerk complained about the envelopes ... there should be some special ones... AND it was the wrong post office... so I went to the third one and threw them into the post office ... courious if they will arrive.
Some more letters today. same town as three days ago. another postoffice. I went in, the lady started to call around, finally told me, I have to pay 600 for the small ones and 800 for the big one...
I couldn't other than laughing... because finally for the large letter it was one readyprinted stamp 230, some additional stamps I put for reaching 540, and today the lady could hardly found enough space to add some more stamps for reaching 800... please, keep this envelope (if it reaches Austria...) I want to take a picture of that... :)
Courious what happens to the next letter... :D
koerndl - 23. Aug, 16:12
susi (Gast) - 25. Aug, 13:12
2009.08.15.18
.... auch wenn ich mir nicht ganz sicher bin, was der 18er am ende der poststempelzeile bedeutet.... auf jeden fall ging's schnell mit dem brief, finde ich....
and thank you sooooooo (oder frei nach glattauer so so so) much for the "ri"
:o)
susi
and thank you sooooooo (oder frei nach glattauer so so so) much for the "ri"
:o)
susi
say hello
i am a student from China,Hubei .I am about to enter university in September this year.
Do you remember Yichang in Hubei Province Huang Fei do know? I was his good friend, he told me that you, and your experience in Yichang. We have to go to college. You? Hope your trip to China to give you a beautiful left a deep impression.
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