registered mail?

[deadbird 2]

My fiance and I have a serious problem with my letters not reaching him in Cairo. I've received everything he has sent to me but by his record he hasn't received about 10 of my letters. We decided that any mail I send will be registered, but when I went to check out how much it cost imagine my surprise when I saw that it cost $50!!

I don't care if it's express mail, I just want someone to sign for it, and all I see is express which of course costs the $$. Is there a cheaper way?

Of course, if I'm sending a big packet of important papers, (like the photocopies of our I-129F application, NOA1, I-134 etc etc) I'll be glad to pay the $50 just because it contains sensitive info. But as for little love notes...noooo..

Is this going to cause a problem if we stop mailing letters when he goes for his interview? He doesn't get my letters anyway so would the CO understand if we decide to switch to just emails and phone bills?

[doodlebug 3]

I don't know about the whole proof issue but I stopped writing letters a looong time ago for this very reason. I sent one thing Fed Ex that never got there (red sox stuff ) and the letters with stamps on them never got there either.

[Nagishkaw 510]

My fiance lives in a small village. In a year and a half, he has gotten EVERY single letter I ever sent, including all the documents, cards, pictures, you name it. Just last week he got one of my letters and it was opened. That was a first. We never had a problem with the USPS.

[ak3 0]

ONly about 50 percent of the letters I sent have actually arrived. ANd it is always opened. THat really bothers me....they steal things too...I don;t trust them at all. We stick to things where people do not invade our privacy. It shouldn't be their business to open our letters. What can I say oh yeah Egypt.

[deadbird 2]

ONly about 50 percent of the letters I sent have actually arrived. ANd it is always opened. THat really bothers me....they steal things too...I don;t trust them at all. We stick to things where people do not invade our privacy. It shouldn't be their business to open our letters. What can I say oh yeah Egypt.

Honestly I think its a wonder anything gets through to Egypt, lol. Most of the time my letters, if he gets them, are opened as well. I'm so anxious about having to send him anything important that he needs for packet 3 (I want to send everything ahead of time so that way if I have to send it again then we won't delay anything too much)...but it's just real nervewracking.

His arrive here a little beat up, but never opened.

[deemabrouk 0]

I had that problem before... So i started to write his name and address in Arabic on the same envelope/ package.. I have never had a problem ever since.. So i think that might be worth a shot.

[deemabrouk 0]

actually one of my bigger problems now.. Is I want to send him stuff.. and my neice and nephews.. BUT my husband said the Customs is too much for him to pay.. the last time i sent him a package i think he said he almost paid 100 L.E. for it

Which sucks.. cause I want to send clothes and toy donations to the orphanage i visited.. but I dont want them to have to pay a customs tax Does anyone know if charity is exempt from that?

[melly 0]

I've sent several packages through the U.S. postal system and never had a problem. I send them registered so it does cost a little bit more, but I don't mind paying it since all the packages have been recieved fine.

They do open them to check what's inside, but we've never had anything go missing, and I've sent chocolate and other candies and all sorts of things.

He only had to pay a small tax as well, so maybe it depends on the person in the post office who they get when they go to pick up the package.

And I've always written his address in english.

[Aymerlu 3]

We never had a problem with him getting the letters I sent to him.....we just never knew WHEN he'd get it. Sometimes he would get a letter in 7 day (WOW!!!!!) and others would take 3 weeks. I did finally startmaking a little collection of letters and sending them to him once a week by registered mail.

[deadbird 2]

I don't know about the whole proof issue but I stopped writing letters a looong time ago for this very reason. I sent one thing Fed Ex that never got there (red sox stuff ) and the letters with stamps on them never got there either.

When Ramy lived here he liked the Red Sox too!

[deadbird 2]

We never had a problem with him getting the letters I sent to him.....we just never knew WHEN he'd get it. Sometimes he would get a letter in 7 day (WOW!!!!!) and others would take 3 weeks. I did finally startmaking a little collection of letters and sending them to him once a week by registered mail.

Most of Ramy's letters reach me in 7-10 days (surprise!) and if mine get there, mine take about 3 weeks. Well, except for one I sent in September that reached him in 7 days, which surprised both of us.

The funny thing is we never fail to receive a letter from each other on our birthdays. I had mailed him a video-birthday-card that I put together for his 18th birthday (this was almost 6 years ago lol) and mailed it over 3 weeks before his birthday, and he got it right on that day. (How can you plan for that?) Of course he had to pay a bit to pick it up so I never did that again...haha.

ok, registered mail it is. But just incase it gets stolen (with our photocopied I-129F and stuff) should I black out any part of the copies? I don't want to be well-meaning and end up messing up anything for his interview because I blacked it out.

[ya falaha! 0]

Sparrow, I wouldn't worry about these letters as proof of the relationship. There are so many other things you can use for proof. I never sent my husband a single thing through the mail or courier except for paperwork for the packet 3. He still got his visa, alhamdulillah.