postcards from paris
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Just make sure you are doing the postage for airmail and also ask for the little air mail stickers to put on the cards. Even then, don't count on anything. Two cards I sent from Nice on July 7 just arrived in the states two weeks ago, despite being airmailed and having the stickers.
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Do you really have to have little air mail stickers on postcards to the US from France? How else are they going to get there, by boat? If true, this is really primitive, as if you have the correct postage and an address in the US, that seems like it should do it.
I've never put them on my postcards, and they've arrived between 1-2 weeks from Paris, so I'm sure they went by air mail.
I've never put them on my postcards, and they've arrived between 1-2 weeks from Paris, so I'm sure they went by air mail.
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Adrienne, you better try to bring those airmail stickers yourself. It's very likely you won't get them at the tabac.
You can also write 'by airmail' ('par avion') on the card yourself.
Best is probably, you go to a post office to have the cards stamped sufficiently. You find post offices in all neighbourhoods. If you stay at a hotel, they may have stamps as well. Just ask.
Not sure, but I think it's 0.67 Euro for the US.
You can also write 'by airmail' ('par avion') on the card yourself.
Best is probably, you go to a post office to have the cards stamped sufficiently. You find post offices in all neighbourhoods. If you stay at a hotel, they may have stamps as well. Just ask.
Not sure, but I think it's 0.67 Euro for the US.
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Strange how postal systems work. I sent a postcard from a tiny village in the Alps of France(St.Andre des Alpes) and it arrived at my son's house two weeks later. I did ask the postmistress to sell me a stamp for the U.S. After consulting her manual for what seemed like forever she came up with the right stamp.
Don't remember the cost and neither do I remember writing par avion!!
In fact I really didn't think it would make it to the U.S. from such a tiny village. Oh the mysterys of the postal service world wide.
Don't remember the cost and neither do I remember writing par avion!!
In fact I really didn't think it would make it to the U.S. from such a tiny village. Oh the mysterys of the postal service world wide.
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I would think too that they would automatically go airmail, but each time I got stamps at a post office -- in other countries as well, they made a big deal about the stickers, so I added them.
This is the first time I've had such slow service on postcards. Some others arrived within a week or 10 days I understand. But in addition to those two from Nice, several from Italy took well over a month.
I have a friend who buys and writes postcards during her two or three week European trips, but brings them home to mail. She swears the people get them quicker that way, and it saves her money as well -- she sends dozens of postcards.
This is the first time I've had such slow service on postcards. Some others arrived within a week or 10 days I understand. But in addition to those two from Nice, several from Italy took well over a month.
I have a friend who buys and writes postcards during her two or three week European trips, but brings them home to mail. She swears the people get them quicker that way, and it saves her money as well -- she sends dozens of postcards.