I don’t know if it’s true and what kind of a sticker you need (if any), but that would make sense. One of the people who called us to thank for the card said that they had friends living in Dubai who told them that outgoing international mail should not only have a stamp, but also some kind of a sticker, otherwise it gets shipped by boat. My cousin said that even a camel would have been faster and suggested that they probably use turtles… By the time our cards reach our American friends, they will probably think that we are really early with our New Year’s wishes for next year… In any case, it gives us all something to laugh about. ‘Is this card meant for a Chinese New Year?’ – my aunt asked. After 12 weeks, there was still no sign of the cards we sent to the United States though… Exactly 9 weeks later, the postcards finally reached Lithuania. 7 weeks! That’s how much time it took for the postcards to get from Dubai to Belgium.Ī few days later, they arrived in the UK as well.
Just when we forgot about the cards, we received a couple of e-mails from family and friends thanking for the late New Year’s wishes. So we started to think it was probably not the best idea to send postcards to start with… Also, we have not seen one single post-office in Dubai during our stay (and we did look!). Dubai doesn’t have street addresses, just to mention one fact. When doing research for my blog post about all kinds of fun and special Dubai facts, I found out that they have a really strange postal system in Dubai. Other people joked that Dubai probably uses camels to transport the mail and that it might take a while… Some friends suggested that maybe Muslim countries censure the outgoing mail and kept it because it had something to do with Christmas… Not in Belgium, not in the UK, not in Lithuania, and not in the USA. What cards?! It appears that nobody received our postcards. We wrote a couple of dozen cards and gave them to the reception of our Dubai hotel.Ī few weeks later, we asked our family what they thought about our Christmas cards this year. Just like most tourists, we bought postcards and stamps at our hotel in Dubai. What happened to our holiday postcards from Dubai