State-owned Hungarian postal company Magyar Posta will increase its prices by an average 4.9pc from January.
The costs of sending a letter under 30 grammes will increase to HUF 80 from HUF 75, and to HUF 110 from HUF 105 for letters over 50 grammes, Magyar Posta told MTI on Wednesday.
Priority letters will cost HUF 105, while sending priority letters under 50 grammes will increase to HUF 110 from HUF 105 and prices for sending 100-gramme and 250-gramme priority letters will remain unchanged, at HUF 185 and HUF 240, respectively.
Official documents will be transported for HUF 290 and delivered by hand for HUF 355, a HUF 25 increase in the latter case. The company will deliver advertising for HUF 80 under 30 grammes and for HUF 110 between 30 and 50 grammes.
Magyar Posta’s guaranteed delivery services will keep their prices, but packages will be sent for a higher price: a standard package under 20 kilogrammes will cost HUF 990 instead of HUF 930, while non-standard packages will cost HUF 1,500 from HUF 1,420.
Oh how I will enjoy paying more for the privilege of them stealing all your mail.
This is the most useless mail system I have ever witnessed and a testimony to the state of the country. It’s about time they reformed this disaster of a postal service, perhaps that might help business?
JD, C’mon… give them some credit… is there any
other country in the world where you can buy both a
chocolate bar and home insurance along with your
stamps?
We’ve never had problems with the posta, I wonder, are we especially lucky or is it because the nice woman that brings not only letters but sells “rejtveny” to my wife regularly gets some German chocolate ?
Well Wolfi, all I can say is that if you have a good Postman/woman I suggest you lay a man trap, catch her and pickle her.
In my opinion, whenever I have sent or tried to receive anything that vaguely resembles anything of value (CD etc) it never arrives. Check out sellers on Amazon and Ebay, Hungary is often blacklisted because it is more trouble than it is worth.
The only way to get a reliable delivery is to courier it. And we all know how much that costs.
And don’t get me started on post offices themselves. Where else in the modern world are you asked to join the “quick” queue of 25 letters or below. Hasn’t this country heard of franking machines? The post office is always full of office assistants sending the daily letter quota. And do you know how long it takes to send 25 letters!
I dispair!
Someone sent me 600 dollars from abroad. It took me the whole day at the post office to get it. Why?
Because of a “middle” name omission. I provided my
passport, a copy of the sender’s passport the reference from the courier etc etc.
The problem e.g. name, John Smith. Not good enough
John “Charles” Smith.
The money was sent in dollars and they paid me in forint at a very “dodgy” exchange rate.
I work in the “real” world like you JD and Hungary
is in the “dark ages” I’m afraid – across the board.
Is it little wonder that Slovakia wants nothing to do with us?
I complained about the “postings/posters” over on politics.HU because most of the contributions are from lazy, misguided, academics. Note how the input diminishes when school/uni. holidays arrive?
I like Hungary, and I want to see it succeed.
But things have to change. Starting with the government.
Roka: Jaj that’s a terrible story. Not to blame the victim, but I find it hard to imagine any reason why someone would have money sent via the Posta rather than to a bank.
Erik.
I could have claimed the money at the bank. It was my fault all along for believing that I could use the post office without a hitch.
We live and learn! It was actually the fault of some bureaucratic little bitch in Budapest main post office rather than my local office.
I usually receive all my mail- bills, bills, and more, bills!
Boldog Üj Évet!
Actually Roki, you are right, I receive all my bills. It’s only the valuable items that seem to go missing.
Whatever Magyar Posta use to determine bills from valuable items might be useful for airport security upgrades considering the recent security threats.
Never ever send anything of value in the Hungarian
post. In my experience there is high chance you
won’t get it. And if it doesn’t disappear while in
the capable hands of Magyar Posta, you can be sure
that one of your neighbours will be glad to lift
anything interesting out of your letterbox.
Someone was foolish enough to send me a banknote
once. The envelope arrived and looked perfect, but
the banknote was gone, presumably steamed open and
resealed along the way.
I’d watch your friends too, Benny the dwarf. You are of course assuming he/she posted an envelope with the banknote in there in the first place.
By the way Roka, sorry for referring to you as Roki, just a typo.
@JD, Yeah, of course that was my first thought
Of course the posta people make mistakes:
Just this afternoon one of our neighbours rang the bell and brought my wife the National Geographic magazine that she subscribes to, it had landed in his posta lada. I’m sorry to say however that we didn’t have his magazine, so maybe another neighbour is reading this …
OT:
He is the guy that we buy honey from so we ordered a few more kilos of that fantastic “akác méz” for our friends in Germany.
There was an hilarious situation several weeks ago
when my corpulent neighbor was waiting for his newspaper and magazine to be delivered via magyar posta.
It was three o’clock in the afternoon and still no sign of his papers nor the erstwhile postman.
P.S. he had been waiting since seven o’clock in the morning for the delivery.
Hope springs eternal when you live in the land of dreams…
It seems we’re really lucky to live near Heviz – hearing all those sad stories about Magyar posta (and other institutions in Hungary) – we can’t complain really, things are not worse here than say in Germany or other countries
PS: I wanted to write “civilized countries” – but of course Hungary is in principle as civilized as the USA, France or Germany …