Pepe wrote:Maybe you can start a research. A few years ago I sent a pedal to Italy and it didn't arrive at the recipient's address. A few days after having started a research with the parcel number I suddenly got the mistreated parcel back. The sender's and the recipient's addresses were unreadable and the parcel label was torn to pieces. I was glad that the parcel number was still on it or otherwise it had been lost forever. Ever since then I "seal" the addresses with transparent tape and I had no issues whatsoever anymore.
I am under the impression that Italian post is notorious when it comes to this. At least Italy is the only place anything ever got lost on me. Well, apart from that one time a parcel got lost on the 15km from Pulheim to Cologne.