I’m mostly going to refer to the USPS below, because they put a great deal of their operating information online. However, you can be sure that even if the specifics differ, the principles apply to other postal operators just as well. Domestic mail handling International airmail is processed almost exactly the same as domestic mail Read More …

The very short answer: Parcels are handled in bulk as part of a mail stream of many items. This makes things much slower, but also much cheaper, which is why mailing a parcel costs about 1/50th as much as an airline ticket. The somewhat longer answer: Unfortunately, your parcel can’t walk itself up to a Read More …

In order to estimate the arrival time, you should take following two steps: Step 1: Get date when parcel was actually received by China Post. You can track the parcel in traditonal track page and get following result: Above results shows the parcel was received by China Post on April 20,2015. You can also get Read More …

China Post tracking number has standard formats as following: format 1: the number starts with “R” and ends with “CN”, i.e. RR123456789CN, RI987654321CN This is China Post registered airmail. Normally it will arrive destination in 2 to 8 weeks. format 2: the number starts with “C” and ends with “CN”, i.e. CP123456789CN This is China Read More …

The answer of  first question is  you can NOT know the exact arrival time of China Post International Parcel.  Actually not only China Post, Hong Kong Post, Singapore Post and any other countries’ postal service,  all have same problem. The reasons of such unpredictable-arrival problem are as following: China Post international parcels actually go through Read More …

If your tracking results shows the parcel has arrived destination for long time, but does not have delivery information, normally this means the parcel has delivery problem. If your parcel is going to China, it may be caused by following reason: The address is so called self-made address which can not receive parcel from China Read More …