Dili - Post Report Question and Answers
How do you send and receive your letters and package mail? Are local postal facilities adequate?
DPO and pouch. - Mar 2025
Mail is painfully slow because of COVID impacts. In the before times, it was about one month delivery time. - Aug 2021
DPO or diplomatic pouch. - Sep 2017
Pouch/DPO through the Embassy. Delivery times range from a week to two months and expect the package to be beaten up some. Very thankful though for the service. There are no good local postal facilities. DHL is available. - May 2017
Receiving is difficult as until recently there were no postal addresses (houses, buildings were not numbered), but that is changing. I have sent one letter to two different countries and they were received. Word is mail only takes a bit over a week to get to Portugal, but haven't tested that yet. Most people receive mail in country via DHL. - Sep 2016
U.S. embassy mail - 2-6 weeks. - Nov 2013
Pouch and DPO. Local mail service is mostly non-existent. DHL and FEDEX have an office here but prices are exorbitant. - Apr 2013
We use the embassy pouch. I have no idea how to do it otherwise. - Mar 2010
Mail in Dili is not reliable. - Feb 2010
