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sorry to hear it tlm44. that's a bummer. in contrast, i've had pretty good luck sending things through the lao post offices in both luang prabang and vientiane and have been treated with courtesy and humour by the staff as well. one time i was pretty nervous, because the nice lady clerk in VTE insisted that she would put the stamps on my items after i left. but even then everything i mailed arrived as it should.

if my route is taking me back through thailand, i often wait and mail my packages through the thai rather than the lao post. that hasn't been due to fear of loss however, but just because the rates from thailand were a bit cheaper and the delivery time, while still slow, was a bit quicker.

in any case, sorry about your stuff. regards.

yeah sorry to hear it. I sent numerous letters and postcards to Australia from Vientiane last month and have had no problems. It only took about 1.5 weeks which was much better than the 3 it took to send postcards from Saigon in 2007.

I agree that the items were more likely to be taken your home country post office. The staff, at least in the Vientiane post office, are very meticulous in their procedures. I've never had a problem except when a package arrives for me and the post office staff won't hand it over to my wife without an approval document signed by me and signed and stamped by the local village headman.