Help with sending documents to Sochi

[Satellite 1]

Last time I checked it costs just $0.90 to send a letter to Russia using the USPS. Since all of you know the process is going to take somewhere between 6 to 12 months; why not just spend a few dollars sending the documents using plain post at first. Send a few out. If in that time period all your attempts fail, then go with the expensive DHL or Fedex. We had success doing this. Our documents took two weeks to get to Tomsk from California and back

[R&I 0]

Hi Folks.. Happy Easter!

Since I have more than a month, I was going to send documents to Tanya USPS Global Express in Cyrillic.

I need a little help with translating into the format that Slim suggested in the post below please:

"RUSSIA/РОССИЯ

682640 (or whatever your sweety's postal code in Russia is)

Хабаровский Край (Name of Region/Krai/Oblast)

Амурск - Пушкинская ул 24 Д 95 Кв (City/Oblast/Metro stop if applicable, Street, House #, Apt. #)

Шарапове Марие Н (Your sweety's name.... (in the dative case! Don't worry about that!))

(07) 4214-238-436 (Your sweety's mobile or home phone number. Maybe most important!)"

I believe Sochi is in Krasnodar Krai

Her fullname is Tatiana V. Rebenok

Her address is: 5 "B" Titov St. Apt. 9

Thanks again!

Ready to give a hand:

Россия, Краснодарский Край,

город Сочи,

улица Титова, дом 5 Б, квартира 9,

Ребенок Татьяне В.

Good luck!!!

[irish44 0]

Hi Folks.. Happy Easter!

Since I have more than a month, I was going to send documents to Tanya USPS Global Express in Cyrillic.

I need a little help with translating into the format that Slim suggested in the post below please:

"RUSSIA/РОССИЯ

682640 (or whatever your sweety's postal code in Russia is)

Хабаровский Край (Name of Region/Krai/Oblast)

Амурск - Пушкинская ул 24 Д 95 Кв (City/Oblast/Metro stop if applicable, Street, House #, Apt. #)

Шарапове Марие Н (Your sweety's name.... (in the dative case! Don't worry about that!))

(07) 4214-238-436 (Your sweety's mobile or home phone number. Maybe most important!)"

I believe Sochi is in Krasnodar Krai

Her fullname is Tatiana V. Rebenok

Her address is: 5 "B" Titov St. Apt. 9

Thanks again!

Ready to give a hand:

Россия, Краснодарский Край,

город Сочи,

улица Титова, дом 5 Б, квартира 9,

Ребенок Татьяне В.

Good luck!!!

Thank you!

[Corey-Mariya 14]

Hi Folks.. Happy Easter!

Since I have more than a month, I was going to send documents to Tanya USPS Global Express in Cyrillic.

I need a little help with translating into the format that Slim suggested in the post below please:

"RUSSIA/РОССИЯ

682640 (or whatever your sweety's postal code in Russia is)

Хабаровский Край (Name of Region/Krai/Oblast)

Амурск - Пушкинская ул 24 Д 95 Кв (City/Oblast/Metro stop if applicable, Street, House #, Apt. #)

Шарапове Марие Н (Your sweety's name.... (in the dative case! Don't worry about that!))

(07) 4214-238-436 (Your sweety's mobile or home phone number. Maybe most important!)"

I believe Sochi is in Krasnodar Krai

Her fullname is Tatiana V. Rebenok

Her address is: 5 "B" Titov St. Apt. 9

Thanks again!

postal code, Россия, краснодарский край

город Сочи, улица Титова, дом 5Б, квартира 9

Ребенок Татьяне

p.s.your fiance has a cool last name)))

Mariya

[irish44 0]

Hi Folks.. Happy Easter!

Since I have more than a month, I was going to send documents to Tanya USPS Global Express in Cyrillic.

I need a little help with translating into the format that Slim suggested in the post below please:

"RUSSIA/РОССИЯ

682640 (or whatever your sweety's postal code in Russia is)

Хабаровский Край (Name of Region/Krai/Oblast)

Амурск - Пушкинская ул 24 Д 95 Кв (City/Oblast/Metro stop if applicable, Street, House #, Apt. #)

Шарапове Марие Н (Your sweety's name.... (in the dative case! Don't worry about that!))

(07) 4214-238-436 (Your sweety's mobile or home phone number. Maybe most important!)"

I believe Sochi is in Krasnodar Krai

Her fullname is Tatiana V. Rebenok

Her address is: 5 "B" Titov St. Apt. 9

Thanks again!

postal code, Россия, краснодарский край

город Сочи, улица Титова, дом 5Б, квартира 9

Ребенок Татьяне

p.s.your fiance has a cool last name)))

Mariya

Thank you again, all.

I actually sent it via DHL on Saturday. It was only around $60.00. I know I could do it on the cheap using USPS but it took me many hours to gather all the info and I wanted to be able to track it so she could be home from work to receive it. I priced out Fedex for grins and it was $213.00!!

I had to ask the people at the mail place to repeat that to me..

Anyway, her name is her maiden name. Isn't an "A" only added when a girl gets married?

Edited March 24, 2008 by irish44

[mox 298]

Anyway, her name is her maiden name. Isn't an "A" only added when a girl gets married?

Normally the woman's last name is her father's (or her husband's) last name with an "a" at the end. There are possibly other feminine extensions, but "a" is the only one I've seen. So the daughter or wife of Petrov becomes Petrova, Mironov becomes Mironova, Volkov becomes Volkova, etc. It works this way with the woman's patronym as well. Alexander becomes Alexandra, etc.

Obviously there are exceptions, as in Tanya's case. Maybe it's regional?

How many documents were you sending? $60 is a lot cheaper than I was quoted for just a plain old document mailer. Maybe that too is regional.

[Bobalouie 0]

Anyway, her name is her maiden name. Isn't an "A" only added when a girl gets married?

Normally the woman's last name is her father's (or her husband's) last name with an "a" at the end. There are possibly other feminine extensions, but "a" is the only one I've seen. So the daughter or wife of Petrov becomes Petrova, Mironov becomes Mironova, Volkov becomes Volkova, etc. It works this way with the woman's patronym as well. Alexander becomes Alexandra, etc.

Obviously there are exceptions, as in Tanya's case. Maybe it's regional?

How many documents were you sending? $60 is a lot cheaper than I was quoted for just a plain old document mailer. Maybe that too is regional.

It cost me $136 for a document mailer to Sochi via UPS.

[slim 1,530]

As far as I can tell, there have been no delays because the addresses were only in English. Maybe Russian postal workers have cursed the arrogant American who expects his letters and packages to be delivered without the consideration of using the native language for addressing, but I've never heard those curses

Most literate people around the world can read English letters and make sense of them; transliterating in their head into their native tongue and/or script. There is so much influence from pop culture and marketing; Hollywood, Coke, etc. etc. etc. that people are familiar with our alphabet and can make sense of it.

If you write all in English it will be delivered. However, if you have the know-how to write it in the native language of the place it's being sent to, why wouldn't you do it? It's not like it's going to slow it down!

If there is a question as to the correct way to write it, English only probably is the safest way to go. But you've got VJ!!! You're an expert already!

After having lost a couple packages in the mail, I started taking to writing her address and phone number in Cyrillic on all 4 sides of the package. Then I went to the post office, and watched a postal worker proceed to cover every single side that I'd written her address with a USPS sticker. Despite my protests they said it would confuse the postal workers. Seriously. So now I've taken to also writing it on the bottom of the package.

Now that's funny!

....And straight out of the SOP for govt. employees. "Even though this makes a lot of sense and would make our job easier.... we're not going to do it because it's not in our regs. We're not authorized to do that, and neither are you."

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

There are also some neuter last names in Russia that work for either gender, e.g., Nesterenko. Plus, it is always possible her father's family somewhere down the line was from a different country.

Just to correct you a bit, Kirk, daughter of Aleksander (patronymic) would be Aleksandrovna.

Anyway, her name is her maiden name. Isn't an "A" only added when a girl gets married?

Normally the woman's last name is her father's (or her husband's) last name with an "a" at the end. There are possibly other feminine extensions, but "a" is the only one I've seen. So the daughter or wife of Petrov becomes Petrova, Mironov becomes Mironova, Volkov becomes Volkova, etc. It works this way with the woman's patronym as well. Alexander becomes Alexandra, etc.

Obviously there are exceptions, as in Tanya's case. Maybe it's regional?

How many documents were you sending? $60 is a lot cheaper than I was quoted for just a plain old document mailer. Maybe that too is regional.

Edited March 24, 2008 by Kazan' Tiger

[mox 298]

There are also some neuter last names in Russia that work for either gender, e.g., Nesterenko. Plus, it is always possible her father's family somewhere down the line was from a different country.

But don't the neuter last names typically end in -o anyway? "Rebenok" doesn't sound neuter. I'm more inclined to believe that you're right about it not being a Russian last name.

Just to correct you a bit, Kirk, daughter of Aleksander (patronymic) would be Aleksandrovna.

"Keerk...eeeenncorrrect!"

[slim 1,530]

-enko names aren't truly "Russian" are they?

And Rebenok as a last name sounds a little fishy...

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

I should have clarified better! I meant neuter (as in neutral) in that there are some Russian last names that don't get the "A" to feminize them. Of course, Rebenok would be a masculine noun. Interesting name as it means a "small child" or "toddler" in Russian. I even knew a Russian family with the German last name Edelman. They did not make it Edelmana for the ladies.

There are also some neuter last names in Russia that work for either gender, e.g., Nesterenko. Plus, it is always possible her father's family somewhere down the line was from a different country.

But don't the neuter last names typically end in -o anyway? "Rebenok" doesn't sound neuter. I'm more inclined to believe that you're right about it not being a Russian last name.

Just to correct you a bit, Kirk, daughter of Aleksander (patronymic) would be Aleksandrovna.

"Keerk...eeeenncorrrect!"

[slim 1,530]

Doesn't it literally mean, "little fish?" (Which is used for someone close to you like a child or loved one?)

[mox 298]

I actually sent it via DHL on Saturday. It was only around $60.00. I know I could do it on the cheap using USPS but it took me many hours to gather all the info and I wanted to be able to track it so she could be home from work to receive it. I priced out Fedex for grins and it was $213.00!!

I had to ask the people at the mail place to repeat that to me..

Anyway, her name is her maiden name. Isn't an "A" only added when a girl gets married?

Can I just ask how you got a $60 rate to Sochi via DHL? Do you have some kind of frequent-DHL'er discount or something? The cheapest DHL package (DHL Express Letter) will, according to the DHL website, run me about $150. The DHL website is reporting $136 to Sochi. So...just curious. If there's a cheaper way for me to send via DHL that would be really helpful!

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

I believe, "рыбка" would be little fish. Not sure about the literal definition of, "ребёнок".

Doesn't it literally mean, "Little fish?" (Which is used for someone close to you like a child or loved one?)