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[infinitedomain.livejournal.com]

Was it a mistake to send a letter to Russia with the address written in English letters?

A friend of mine in Moscow sent me a package, so I sent her a letter expressing my gratitude. She wrote her return address on the envelope in English letters, so I just copied her address as she wrote it. I'm wondering now if I should have put it in Cyrillic instead. Will this cause difficulties for the Russian post office?

Comments

[nicodimus-canis.livejournal.com]

No, it was not mistake. They can recognize address.

I'm sure

[natha1ie.livejournal.com]

your letter will be delievered correctly. Russian postman can read latin letters.

Re: I'm sure

[oryx_and_crake]

I would not be so sure.

Re: I'm sure

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

true. They once gave us a hard time reading the latin "1B" as russian В and not finding the house.

[sofa-m.livejournal.com]

latin letters are international for the entire world
so a letter with latin address will find it's way in india, in china, japan, russia, etc...
what'd ya think, if you needed to send a letter to china, you'd have to learn to reproduce all the little sticks exactly? or if sending to israel, you'd have to learn hebrew letters? :)) that way no internation commerce would ever happen...:), so don't worry, it'll find it's way just fine

[edricson.livejournal.com]

Kepp your fingers crossed. The letter has a good chance of being lost, though the lettering is irrelevant, it's just the Russian post.

I mean, parcels addressed to me in Cyrillic are lost just as often as ones with Latin on them.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

You know -- in last, say, ten years I never had any letter or parcel lost on the way to or from me. What I'm doing wrong, can you tell me?

[mekkababble.livejournal.com]

Then you're among the lucky. Every time I get something via Russian post service, if I'm told 3-5 weeks, I estimate 8 months. One time I ordered a CD from Moscow, assumed it got lost in the ether, and got it 6 months late. It had some lovely stamps on it from most major cities in Europe.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Well, international post in Russia is notoriously slow -- basically because, IIRC, there is only ONE postal customs office -- and it's in Moscow. I had experienced delays up to three months myself. But domestic post was rather efficient -- I never waited more than ten days.

As for strange ways the post goes -- it's inevitable, I believe. Once I've had my driving license mailed to me from Russia to Japan via DHL, and instead of going straight to me in Sendai, it surfaced a week and a half later in Osaka branch, on the other end of Japan.

[edricson.livejournal.com]

You aren't. I'm rather wondering what's wrong with me :). They lost even the postcard saying I could fetch my passport (it's 50m from the police to the post office and 250 m from the post office to my house) :).

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Then you must have some particulary sloppy post office there... Shit happens, as they say.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

It's completely normal. All international mail is signed in Latin script anyway. ^_^

[wire-shock.livejournal.com]

I don't think there'll be any problems....though you never can tell with bees!