Originally Posted by miki
The postcards I usually mail from Europe tend to take 10 days to 2 weeks to be delivered. My problem is that I'm usually home by the time they arrive. That bugs me more than them not arriving.
May I humbly suggest taking longer trips and mailing the postcards earlier? Month long vacations should take care of the problem.
All of my postcards have eventually made it to the destination. I do recall that a bunch of postcards I mailed from the Prague Castle took a very long time to get to the States--on the order of two months, but this was three or four years ago. A similar mailing in March this year took only a week or so.
What I find most interesting are the price differentials in mailing postcards. Germany is incredibly expensive not just to the States, but internally. It stands out sharply compared to the Netherlands or Czech Republic, in my mind. The US has the least expensive internal rates and are not that bad to Europe ($0.74). US to Canada rates though (I was told $0.55 recently) seem a bit steep considering the physcial distance involved.