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international express mail service

6 years ago
Does anybody have experience with trying to get letters delivered internationally in PT? I'm concerned with speed of service both to- and from the US. Is there some company doing express mail as-we-knew-it that I'm not aware of here?

From their website, it is almost impossible to learn anything useful about how to send to the US from PT with DHL, but it looks like the minimum charge is € 49. Not great but I could live with it if I knew that I'd actually get express service and not the same as postal priority mail. Priority mail with Correios (PT post office) is cheap (~ €5?) but that took about 6 days to get a letter from the Algarve (Tavira) to Munich. I've come to expect that regular mail (now all "airmail") will arrive from San Francisco in 6-10 days. Tracking online by Correios for shipments originating in other countries showed no progress between the border and destination until the day of delivery, which was at least three days for a DHL envelope we got from Germany earlier this year, so I guess the same will apply from the US.

I have something that needs to move "fast" both t0-and from the US. FedEx doesn't give me any options from the US and I suspect that express mail from USPS will not really get special treatment on the ground within PT.

Any suggestions?

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