is there any one who can advise on how you make sure that mail is delivered to the spouse
in Accra Ghan , West Africa as there mail system is not secure ....I am working on the K-3 process
and just want addvise so I can make sure she receives all packages ???? any advice can help ???
Thanks
Greg

I have always sent my finace stuff through USPS and it has never gotten lost.

If you want you could also try DHL or FedEx.

I've never had a problem sending it through USPS. Are you sending a box of things or just paperwork? If it's something valuable in a box, you can try using FedEx. It's expensive but it'll get there. Otherwise, when I send cards or the forms, I used USPS and it took about two weeks for him to get it.

Just in case, however you send it, make copies in case it doesn't arrive.

I know of fedex. The mail will get intouch in 3 or 4 working days.
Good luck

DHL,FEDEX,UPS are more secure and faster

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I never had a problem using USPS, I didn't mail anything of much importance to my husband through USPS, because you just never know. I used DHL & FedEx for the more important things. But anything we mailed to each other made it just fine and arriving approx 2 weeks and sometimes less! Yes, I would make copies too.

I'm not sure how Ghana works but I'm still waiting for my husband to get the Christmas present I sent him via USPS.. oh did I mention it was Christmas 2004 (sent Nov 2004).

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Greg, I've used regular postal mail to mail documents that didn't necessarily have a time frame and it ahs usually take about 3 weeks.....I've used fed ex when mailing visa papers and had to have my relatives over there give me their house number address since fed ex will accept p.o. box numbers which as we know is how mail is usually addressed in ghana..... I once made the big mistake of using the house address by sending it via usps and it caused a big confusing at the ghana post office...so if just make sure if you send mail through usps that you use the p.o box number and not the house number which most times fed ex prefers since they hand deliver to the house. In any case. whichever mail courier service you use, you can at least track the package til it leaves the United States. If you do send it regular postal mail and its importat papers, its probably best to pay a lil extra for proof of delivery (this is when they are supposed to sign for it once they receive it in Ghana)

WOW! Yeah sending mail to Nigeria is kinda sketchy. I usually send my fiance stuff through people who take trips to Nigeria. But I need to send him something for his bday in November...thinking of using DHL...i'm still nervous about that though.

Receiving mail within Ghana...Well the only experience I have with that is when I received a letter from the embassy of Ghana which took me about 4 days to receive which is fast since I live here in the states
(I believe the letter was about the k-3 process about when i should recieve the packet 3 and 4)..We had authorized my brother in law to pick up and recieve packets 3 and 4 for us so we instructed the embassy in Ghana to send it to my brother in law in Takoradi. The embassy had mailed it this letter about the same time they sent me a letter and it finally arrived in Takoradi nearly 3 weeks later. So I rec'd a letter from Ghana much faster than the embassy sending a letter within the country.

The embassy is not using Ghana mail. That's why it works faster. They have regular mail shipments through DC (some embassies daily couriers) and then it's through our USPS.

That will happen in Ghana too, but mostly if it's a box then it's obvious that it could have something that people want to steal. I send those through FedEx or DHL now. I've never used UPS. I sent a box through USPS to Bassi one time, mostly because it was stuff for some of the kids there that I love my soon, to be nephew who is 8, my 12 year old neice who thinks she's grown and the newest baby.....I knew if the stuff got stolen it wasn't very expensive. It was just an "I'm thinking of you package" and I think there were chocolates and cards for Bassi and Mama and Baba. Anywhoo, after a month, Bassi went to customs in Accra Central and there was his box waiting for him, supposedly unclaimed.....though they never notified him that they were holding it. That's Ghana for you....good God-fearing people getting tested by packages coming from abroad. But to just mail a card or paperwork, no problem. I guess they know no one is stupid enough to put cash in a card anymore. I don't even do that in the US.

I have found Fedex to be the most reliable for Nigeria

I know this message come a little late but, I thought I'd still share it with you. I have used the USPS to mail a card to my fiance, the following day I mailed a letter to him. Needless to say, the letter I mailed a day after the card made it but the card did not. The mail system in Ghana is not that secure. If it looks like money or something else of value is in that letter or package, there is a higher likelihood that it will be opened.

I have received a package from my fiance that was opened that taped back. He as received mail from out of the country that was tampered with.

If what you are sending is very important I would send it by DHL, UPS, FedEx....etc. You can use USPS if you are sending it as secured mail (I think they end up using FedEx or one of those other companies for secured international deliveries anyway)

Oh and just so you know, I believe DHL is the only one of these companies that have some sort of main office in Accra, as was told to me by my fiance...You can ask around about that.

~Asante Maroon

DHL is pretty safe