Posting Packages to PP

nerdlinger · Post by **nerdlinger** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:48 am

So according to Cambodia’s top American Private Investigator there’s no post office in Cambodia.

What’s the best way to bring my stuff in if I’m moving long term? Eg computer monitor, snowboarding gear etc.
In the past when moving abroad I’ve just sent all that stuff by regular surface mail, but I’m wondering if I’d be better off paying Excess Baggage fees to bring everything with me and hire a man with a van to meet me at the airport? Or is the post pretty reliable if it’s to PP?

Ghostwriter · Post by **Ghostwriter** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 3:15 am

I'd love to see a pic of you (or anybody) holding a snowboard with all the gear under the Phnom Penh airport's sign. Hopefully with a tuktuk in the frame.
Kinda

That would be worth a few round of drinks, even more if a newcomer.

I think you can sell the computer screen though, plenty there already.

Doc67 · Post by **Doc67** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:24 am

nerdlinger wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:48 am So according to Cambodia’s top American Private Investigator there’s no post office in Cambodia.

What’s the best way to bring my stuff in if I’m moving long term? Eg computer monitor, snowboarding gear etc.
In the past when moving abroad I’ve just sent all that stuff by regular surface mail, but I’m wondering if I’d be better off paying Excess Baggage fees to bring everything with me and hire a man with a van to meet me at the airport? Or is the post pretty reliable if it’s to PP?

From the UK use Interparcel, owned by BPost (Belgium). It's much cheaper than Parcelforce. You drop it off at the local Hermes collection shop. You can track it's every movement and watch as it goes from pillar to post in the UK over the next 48 hours and finally ends up near an international hub near Heathrow. Then it goes into the darkness and nothing seems to happen for about 2-3 weeks while you freak out.

Then you get a call from the Phnom Penh post office near street 104 for you to collect (because you wrote your Khmer phone number on the outside of the package). You go get your package and then go into a small room and see the customs guys.

Under $60 and there is no duty. Over $60 and they start making up numbers. Mine was 21% on new clothes. There is a distinction between new and second hand but I never got round to finding out. Next time I'm just saying $50 and second hand and see what happens.

https://uk.interparcel.com/

Ozinasia · Post by **Ozinasia** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 11:36 am

I see your in UK so cannot comment really but for the benefit of anyone in USA FORGET USPS
I had a birthday gift for a kid sent November 2020 from Chicago Post office still no sign of it on the tracking number page of their web site all I get is
Your item departed a transfer airport in DOHA, QATAR on February 19, 2021 at 10:57 am. The item is currently in transit to the destination.
That's it ZIP, Narda , nothing more .... sent emails complaints left a dozen messages on their web site and and their facebook page .
ZIP, nothing no response what so ever. Bloody disgrace will NEVER do that again.

nerdlinger · Post by **nerdlinger** » Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:31 pm

Ghostwriter wrote: ↑Sun Sep 26, 2021 3:15 am I think you can sell the computer screen though, plenty there already.

I’m doing that with my second monitor, but my main is fancy enough that postage would have to be more than about £150 to make it higher than the difference between new vs used price.