Late Mail From Oz?

We received a Christmas card from Australia in this morning's post ?

My daughters cards to NZ have literally just arrived and she sent them about 7 weeks ago

We’ve stopped sending greeting cards to Oz, always late even for birthdays sent well in advance.

We had a message from our son on Saturday to say his Christmas card had just arrived. Nothing from him but that'll be because he didn't send one.

Always worth a punt, Callistemon21 if you don't have a deadline, I have found- and the savings are phenomenal! (For a 2 kg parcel, £12.95 as opposed to Airmail £28.55?).

I will next time ixion

Funnily enough, the one to a major city only just arrived but others to more remote areas arrived before Christmas.

No problem either sending or receiving Christmas and birthday cards here. My sister posted my son’s birthday card on 4th January and it arrived on 9th. Is it a local sorting office issue there, my family are in Perth?

After disappointing Christmas deliveries to Oz, where only 2 out of 4 parcels arrived in time, despite posting on 25th November, try posting Economy/Surface mail!
It has just taken 15 days to reach its destination?‍♀️

Reviving this thread to say that DD let me know she received her Christmas card from us today ?
I posted airmail it at the end of November ?

I posted cards from Australia to England on the 3rd Dec, they arrived on the 17th. Conversely cards posted in England on the 7th still have not arrived.

Seems to be much the same everywhere.

I used to send a club newsletter out, some went to members in UK and often they had their copy before members here had theirs.

I'm still waiting for mail from UK to Oz!

dolphindaisy Snap. I use moonpig Australia as well as the UK one. I am not very techie but I managed to insert a photo in the card, which my DGS loved.

I was just saying to Himself this morning “it’s not like ...... not to send a Christmas card”. She lives in Perth and always sends a card. Going by these posts it’s still on its way. I’m glad.

Card from GC received the other week but D's card hasn't arrived, nor has she had mine. Their mail is late too with postal services staff off sick.

I sent cards airmail to Oz on 2nd Dec….first one received today, almost 4 weeks later.

We're still waiting for cards that were posted from Oz in late October!

I find this oddly reassuring. Sorry for the others who are awaiting overseas post but have had nothing from Oz, Singapore or New Zealand and nothing to say ours had arrived. Reminds me of last Christmas when our card to Canada using TouchNote arrived in April via India . ?

Yammy I ordered a birthday card earlier in the year from an Australian site (Victoria to Queensland) and it took over 2 weeks to be delivered, after the event.

Parcels sent airmail earlier this year were held up at the Heathrow Cargo hub, one took 3 weeks to arrive, the other longer.

Australia Post is being restructured too and is in a mess, thousands of jobs have been lost, so I'm told.

Now, I'm wondering if Newcastle on Tyne has been uprooted and relocated in Australia? Been waiting on a letter from my bank for two weeks!

New Zealand is incredible slow I have to send birthday cards and presents at least a month if not five weeks ahead and that’s AIRMAI, to get there on time my family live just outside Auckland so not in the sticks but only get Mail two or three times a week
I m still awaiting christmas cards that I m told have been sent

No mail from Oz but an email to apologise as they said everything was running late that was Victoria. No news at all from Queensland . I'm now wondering if mine got there now, for the first time I used a card company that posted from Oz as others have been so late.
The odd thing is when relis lived out east in old British colonies they got post nearly the next day just like us.

I've received theirs, but they haven't received mine yet.
I posted it very early in December.

Posted cards to Australia at the end of November and They arrived 2 days before Christmas. Not good.

The problem with mail from OZ is because not many planes flying between the two countries these days, certainly not as many as BC (before Covid). I get round this by using the Moonpig Australia site, you only pay local postage.

EllanVannin not putting a stamp on has always been the quickest way to get a letter delivered in this country!

I haven't got any post coming from Oz but I see the card I got today from Italy was posted 12 days ago. Admittedly Italy's postal system is notorious.