Baku - Post Report Question and Answers
How do you send and receive your letters and package mail? Are local postal facilities adequate?
We use DPO. It has to come through Tblisi and takes about three weeks for things to get here. - Dec 2024
DPO and pouch. DPO takes 2-3 weeks, pouch three weeks. - Sep 2023
We use the DPO. - Aug 2023
We use DPO and Diplomatic Pouch. Other expats use the local postal services and have many many issues with their parcels. - Aug 2023
Embassy mail service - Jun 2023
We use pouch and DPO. Some of the BP families use some shipping services, so there are options if you aren't an American diplomat. - Jun 2021
We just got DPO downstream from Tbilisi. It still has some kinks, but they are being worked out. We also still have pouch. I don't know of anyone who has used local mail. - Jan 2019
Baku is currently a pouch-only post (Li batteries can be problematic). We never used the local postal facilities. - Jul 2018
Diplomatic pouch. - Mar 2017
Through the embassy pouch mail. - Jul 2015
Pouch. Anything else is unwise. - Jan 2013
Dip pouch through the Embassy. - Dec 2011
Pouch at the embassy. - Sep 2010
Mail goes through the embassy. 2-3 weeks minimum. - Aug 2010
Pouch. - Oct 2009
We have pouch service. You pay postage only for items less than a pound. Items over a pound there is a pouch fee. - Sep 2008
International mail takes about 3 weeks from the U.S. - Sep 2008
