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[quote=GUEST44223,283259]I'm living in China, and so far my experiences have been good with sending letters home to Europe. It's reliable and they are there fast (10-14 days even from remote location). However, sending parcels is an altogether different story... The problem is the (in my eyes) strange regulations on what they allow in a parcel and what not. And yes, the box needs to be approved of as well – and if it’s not their own make, chances are it gets refused… Here just a few items I was not allowed to mail (or friends couldn’t post to me ). All of them on domestic mail – mail abroad is even more difficult as you can’t post it from any post office you want. In remote locations, you may have to go to the prefectural or provincial main post office. The post refused to mail the following: A jar of chocolate spread, a cell phone battery (they did let my friend post the cell phone, though!) and an assortment of foreign medical articles (sterile syringes, some pills, some ointments). The first two attempts were made in two big cities – Chengdu and Kunming (where one would expect less red tape…) - and the latter in a remote rural place where success with mail anyway depends on the favour with the post office attendant. I had none that day, and she sent me half way through town to the “medicine inspection office” to get written permission. However, this place turned me flatly down, saying I need an official receipt or an import declaration.[/quote]

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