We often get parcels sent over here from the family in the USA, since at times they can get things cheaper than we can get them here. However, almost every time a parcel has been sent over, we've had to clash with the South African Post Office.

Why? For one simple reason: the collection notices never reach our post box (mail box, to the Americans reading this).Read more »

Hello there! Just a quick note to anyone who has, or may one day send us a package-

Raoul got the post from our old landlord yesterday and found that we had gotten a notice to pick up a parcel from the post office, but as it was a couple months old, the post office no longer has the parcel- it's either been returned to the sender, or sent to the RLO (we're not sure what that stands for either). We're going to try to find out where the parcel is and retrieve it, but we're not sure what will happen.Read more »