Postcard from the Algarve to the UK in only . . . . 29 days

guest too · Post by **guest too** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:38 am

While we were down in CVO in early February, we sent a number of postcards to friends and family back in the UK. The cards were posted at the Lagoa post office on 6th February - the first of them arrived this morning – 29 days after it was posted!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:01 pm

The post must be bad throughout Portugal. We are awaiting news of cards posted in Porto three weeks ago
Jane Meer

digger · Post by **digger** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:58 pm

I received a Christmas card two days ago from my sister in Australia. It was addressed correctly except after Portugal she put Spain! I did once tell her that a good way to wind up the Portuguese is to ask them – with a straight face – if Portugal belongs to Spain, and how they will explain – at length – how it doesn’t (haha).
But what was she thinking of? Winding them up at every opportunity?

B2D · Post by **B2D** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 2:31 pm

I have never had any problems with the post from portugal... letters 2 days from B1D (when she finally gets to the correio

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Letters from me to there though are always hideously delayed by the fact that I never write any.

xmas 2003 all the christmas presents went missing via parcel force. They were sent back to me on 1st March having sat in a warehouse in coventry for two months. They said that the address didn't exist - but as the parcel had never got to pt I'm not sure how they knew that...?
Most of the presents had been opened and 2 cds had been stolen. Happy bloody christmas useless parcelforce tossers.