Package stored for 30 days , then with the appropriate note goes to the person who sent it.

Parcels are stored at post offices for 15 days from the date of their receipt. The storage period for postal orders and written correspondence, which also includes international small packages, is 30 days. Items marked “Judicial” are stored for 7 days.

The calculation of the storage period begins from the next working day of the postal service following the day of receipt of the item or postal order at the place of delivery.

How to track a parcel?

Since all postal items are now recorded in a single system, it is possible to track your parcel via the Internet. This is very convenient, because the shelf life of parcels at Russian Post is limited, and written notifications are often lost.

To track, it is enough to know the tracking number of the shipment. On the official website of the Russian Post there is a “Services” column on the left; the first line in this block contains a service that allows you to monitor parcels.

By clicking on the link, you will be taken to a page where the website address for tracking is posted. The tracking number of the shipment is indicated on the receipt, which is issued at the post office when registering the parcel. It contains 14 digits that must be entered into the search bar in a row, without allowing spaces or any other characters.

If you are the recipient of the package, you need to ask the sender to provide you with the tracking number.

In addition to the website, there is also a mobile application that will send notifications about how your mail is moving. You can also go through the registration procedure on the Russian Post website and subscribe using your shipment number. You will receive notifications by email about any change in the status of your parcel.

Storage period for parcels at Russian Post

The storage period for items is regulated by the rules of Russian Post. It's limited. You definitely need to know about this if you don’t want to run into difficulties. How long does the Russian Post keep a parcel?

The parcel will be waiting for you at the post office that corresponds to your place of residence. The storage period is only 30 days from the moment the parcel arrives at the post office. The storage periods for parcels sent by cash on delivery at Russian Post are similar.

Parcel notifications

Upon receipt, a notification will be issued and sent to the address indicated on the parcel. The notice is placed in the mailbox. After five working days, a second notification will be sent if the recipient has not arrived at the post office. If the recipient does not show up for the parcel within thirty days, it will be sent back. Return shipping costs are borne by the sender. If the latter refuses to receive and pay for what was returned, the parcel goes into the unclaimed section and is placed in a temporary storage warehouse.

There may be reasons why it is not possible to meet the agreed deadlines. To extend the storage period, the sender or recipient must write an application in the prescribed form with a request to extend the storage period. But you will have to pay for it according to the tariffs established by the post office.

When going to pick up a parcel, you need to have a neatly filled out notification and passport with you.

Parcel storage period at Russian Post (free)

The post office must store the parcel free of charge for up to five working days. Payment may be taken for subsequent days, but there is an important nuance. The secondary notification, which is sent to the recipient in case of failure to appear for the parcel according to the primary notification, must be handed over against signature. That is, the post office must have evidence that the recipient has been notified that a package is awaiting him. But this is usually not done.

The secondary notice, like the primary one, is usually simply dropped into the mailbox. Therefore, postal service employees cannot charge storage fees beyond the established five working days. But keep in mind that such a development of events is possible; it is specified in the mail rules.

If you received a secondary notification against signature, and not through a mailbox, keep in mind that you only have one business day to pick up your parcel, otherwise you will have to pay for the service of storing your items at the post office.

So, let's sum it up a little. The shelf life of parcels at Russian Post (free) is 5 working days. Then it will be stored, but a fee may be charged for this. The general storage period for parcels at Russian Post is 30 days. After this, the parcel is sent back with a note that the storage period has expired.

Rules for receiving parcels

You can receive the parcel only after identification documents have been presented. Postal items are issued against receipt. At the time of delivery, the weight must be checked; it must match what is indicated in the accompanying documents. Home delivery of parcels is possible for an additional fee. The postman will definitely bring a notice.

If an inventory of the contents is attached to the parcel, then it will be necessary to open the package in the presence of a postal service employee in order to compare the contents with the inventory. If such opening is refused, the post office no longer bears responsibility for missing valuables or their replacement. If something similar is found at the post office, the employees will draw up a corresponding report in four copies.

If the parcel is issued by cash on delivery, then you can receive it only after full payment has been made. Not only the payment is paid, but also the postal commission for sending the money transfer.

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Postal transfers

Not only do parcels have a limited shelf life at the post office, there are also regulations for postal transfers. What is the shelf life of a parcel at Russian Post? Do you already know what can be said about the translation?

The translation is also stored for thirty days, unless there is an application from the addressee or sender to extend the period.

Parcel storage period at Russian Post

The storage period for registered mail items can be extended for up to 2 months from the date of receipt at the department using an additional service. To do this, the addressee (or his authorized representative) must submit to the department where parcels or letters are received at his address, a written application indicating passport data.

Having accepted the shipment, postal service employees bring a notification to the addressee, according to which the addressee will receive his parcel, letter or transfer, having his passport with him.

After the expiration of the storage period, registered items (parcels, registered and valuable letters, registered and valuable parcels, registered postcards, EMS express mail) are sent to the return address at the sender's expense. If the sender does not pick up the returned item within the storage period, the item is considered “unclaimed” and is stored for 6 months, after which it is destroyed.

Simple letters, parcels, postcards are not returned to the sender. They are considered unclaimed and are stored in the department for 6 months, after which they are destroyed.

The shelf life of parcels at Russian Post is from June 1

Not long ago it became known that the postal service “Russian Post” will soon become completely state-owned, which will have a positive impact on the quality of its services and make them more accessible to the population of the country. Apparently, the “improvement” of this organization has already begun, because from June 1, 2018, the storage period for parcels will be greatly reduced, after which they will be sent back to China. In short, everything is very bad, because the innovation will make postal services less popular.

AKKet.com obtained a document for internal use by Russian Post employees. It says that from June 1, 2018, new storage periods for all postal items are officially established. If now any parcel, including those delivered via EMS, can be stored in the department for 30 days, then from the beginning of summer this period will be halved - to 15 days.

Large postal items (LPO) will also now be able to be stored in post offices for only 15 calendar days, and then they will be sent back to the sender. Written correspondence, including small packages, will be stored at the point of issue for 30 days, and letters from the “Judicial” category only for 7 days. In all cases, the deadlines begin to count from the next day from the day of arrival at the department. Simply put, if the parcel arrived at the Russian Post office, for example, on May 18, then the calculation of its storage period will begin on May 19.

How long does the Post Office store parcels for free?

Parcels are delivered to post offices at the place of residence of the addressee indicated on the shipment. The storage period for parcels and transfers is 30 days from the date of arrival of the postal item at the post office. After this period, the parcel is sent back to the sender.

Important: If there is a corresponding application from the addressee or sender, the postal operator may increase the storage period of the parcel at the post office. Please note that for such a service the postal operator may charge a fee in accordance with established postal rates.

How long does the post office store parcels from China, aliexpress?

The storage period for postal orders and written correspondence, which also includes international small packages, is 30 days.

According to the rules established and written down in the charter of the Post of the Russian Federation, postal items are stored for 30 days (that is, one month) from the day they are received at the post office. After the deadline has expired and no one has come to pick up the parcel, postal employees send it back to the sender.

Although quite often goods from China are light in weight and are considered a parcel post rather than a parcel, in this case they are not returned to the sender, but are left at the post office for a period of six months. If during this time no one comes for them, then they are considered unclaimed and are subject to destruction. The same goes for postcards and letters.

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We will tell you more about the procedure for storing postal correspondence, the periods of free and paid storage in this article.

How long is a parcel stored at the post office for free?

Parcels are delivered to post offices at the place of residence of the addressee indicated on the shipment. The storage period for parcels and transfers is 30 days from the date of arrival of the postal item at the post office. After this period, the parcel is sent back to the sender.

Important: if there is a corresponding application from the addressee or sender, the postal operator can increase the shelf life of the parcel at the post office. Please note that for such a service the postal operator may charge a fee in accordance with established postal rates.

Having accepted the parcel, postal service employees deliver a postal notice to the addressee (usually in a mailbox), through which the addressee will receive his parcel, having his passport with him. If the parcel is not received within 5 working days from the actual delivery of the first notification, a secondary notification will be delivered to the addressee.

When is the parcel storage fee charged?

From the moment the secondary notice is delivered to the addressee (not counting the day of delivery), i.e. after 5 working days from the date when the parcel arrives at the post office, the addressee may be charged a fee for storing the parcel at the post office; payment rates are set by the postal operator.

Important: the rules for the provision of postal services indicate that the secondary notice is handed over to the addressee against receipt. However, in practice this often does not happen, and notices are delivered to the mailbox. Accordingly, if the addressee did not sign for receipt of the repeated notification, then the postal operator cannot charge a fee for storing the item.

So, to the question “How long is a parcel stored at the post office?”, you should answer: 30 days, of which 5 working days are free, for the rest of the storage time a fee may be charged.

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Good afternoon. I sent a parcel from Russia to Germany to my husband. Since carrying it would be extra weight on the plane. Following the parcel, I myself arrived in Germany. I live in Germany. There was a mistake in the Last Name on the envelope of the notification letter and the parcel was sent back to Russia. I myself am not going to Russia in the near future. Please tell me what to do in this situation? There is no one in Russia to receive the parcel. As far as I understand, I will have to pay for storage (and my period may not be short). Russian Post says to write a power of attorney to receive my shipment. But I need the parcel to arrive in Germany. And then the power of attorney, forwarding, sending again - these are again my expenses. It turns out due to the negligence of postal workers. Please tell me what to do in this situation?

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How long is a parcel or letter kept in the department?

Postal items are stored in post offices for 30 days from the date of their receipt. The exception is “Judicial” items, they are stored for 7 days.

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How long can a package stay at the Russian post office until it is sent back?

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The storage period for registered items can be extended for up to 2 months from the date of receipt at the department. To do this, the addressee (or his authorized representative) must submit a written application indicating passport details to the department where the parcel arrived.

Having accepted the parcel, postal service employees bring a notice to the addressee, according to which the addressee will receive his parcel, having his passport with him. If the parcel or letter is not picked up within 5 days, the recipient will be notified again. A fee may be charged for storing the item after delivery of the repeated notice (the amount of the fee can be clarified at the branch).

After the expiration of the storage period, registered items (parcels, registered and valuable letters, registered and valuable parcels, registered postcards, EMS express mail) are sent to the return address at the sender's expense. If the sender does not pick up the returned item within the storage period, the item is considered “unclaimed” and is stored for 6 months, after which it is destroyed.

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Simple letters, parcels, postcards are not returned to the sender. They are considered unclaimed and are stored in the department for 6 months, after which they are destroyed.

How long is a parcel stored at Russian Post for free?

Often, while waiting for a package to arrive at the post office, we fail to receive it on time or encounter difficulties in receiving the package. This happens when the recipient does not know how long the arrived parcel is stored at the post office.

The storage period for the arrived postal item until it is issued is determined in the rules for the provision of postal services. Below we will discuss in detail the issue of receiving a parcel at the post office and will analyze how long the parcel can be stored at the Russian Post for free and from what point payment must be made.

Storage period for parcels at Russian Post

The parcel arrives at the post office closest to the address of the addressee's place of residence, which is written directly on the parcel. The parcel that arrives at the destination is stored for 30 days. 30 days are counted from the moment the parcel arrives at the post office. If within 30 days the addressee has not arrived to receive his parcel, the parcel in this case will inevitably be sent back to the sender's address.

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However, you should keep in mind that additional storage of your parcel may also be charged additionally in accordance with postal rates.

When a parcel arrives at the post office, post office employees must inform the addressee about the arrival of the parcel in his name. Notification is made by sending a postal notification of the arrival of the parcel to the addressee. The notification arrives in the recipient's mailbox.

It is with this document and passport that the addressee receives his shipment at the post office. If within five working days from the date of delivery of the notice to the sender’s post office, the parcel has not yet been received by him, post office employees will deliver a second notice to the addressee.

In what cases does storing a parcel at the post office become paid?

So, the addressee received a secondary notice.

According to the rules for the provision of postal services, the addressee receives a secondary notification by confirming receipt with a receipt. But in practice, due to the complexity of this process, secondary notices are often simply delivered to the mailbox, just like primary ones.

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And without a receipt for the secondary notification, the postal operator no longer has the right to charge you for additional storage of the parcel. If you are unable to receive the parcel yourself, you can issue a power of attorney to another person. So, we have just found out in no uncertain terms that to the question “How long should an arrived parcel be kept at the post office” there can only be one clear answer: 30 days. The first five days the parcel is stored at the post office for free, for the rest a fee may be charged, but only the secondary notification is delivered to you against signature.

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How long can a parcel be stored at the post office for free?

Shipping cash on delivery. There is no time to pick it up, but they call and argue, saying that the parcel is not stored for free. 4 days have passed. I'll pick it up tomorrow. Do they have the right to charge me anything extra?

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After 7 days (court letters have 3 days), after delivery of the first notice, you must be personally handed a second notice by signature. If you were not found at home, the notice should be placed in the mailbox. From the next day you may be charged money for storage. Post offices should have tariffs, including for this service. The amount of the storage fee depends on the number of days from the reporting point (the next day after delivery of the secondary notice). There is a delicate moment. If the notice was not handed to you personally against signature, then it is difficult to prove the fact of its delivery, unless, of course, you come with it yourself. You can try to beat this moment (come without notice, you have to write out a new one and hand it over), but I don’t think the game is worth the candle. Most likely, they will charge little for storage, and there is a limit on the amount of the fee. The shelf life of 30 days is a little different. After this time (judicial ones earlier), your mail will be sent back, unless of course you have an application to increase the storage period, but such an application will also be accepted with the appropriate payment.

At the post office, the countdown of free postal storage of an arrived parcel begins from the date of receipt - five working days. If the parcel is not picked up, a secondary notification is sent, and then the postal service can take payment. The parcel is not picked up for 30 days - the shipment is sent back, the sender must pay for the secondary shipment.

This applies to registered items - parcels, valuables, registered parcels/letters/postcards/EMS express items.

Regular correspondence, postcards, letters, including simple parcels, which have been lying around for 6 months, are destroyed because they are considered unclaimed.

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Thus, we see that the parcel is stored for 30 days. But not for free. The post office decided that after serving the repeated notice it could charge a storage fee.

There are new areas in our city where postmen do not go at all, explaining that they cannot serve such a huge territory. Accordingly, notifications are not given and people simply do not know that the parcel has arrived. And the post office may already charge a fee.

The shelf life of a parcel at the post office is 30 days from the moment it arrived at the post office and you do not have to pay for this time, but if you need more time, you can extend the storage time for another month, but here you will have to pay (amount determined by mail, this needs to be clarified in each individual case.)

To do this, you need to write an application with your passport details and bring it to the post office, any authorized person can do this for you and remember any simple parcels, letters and postcards are not returned, but are destroyed after 6 months of storage, since they are considered unclaimed.

Hello. I read the question and remember myself, my eternal problem.

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By law, the parcel is stored at the post office for a month. But if the deadline is coming to an end and you haven’t picked it up and at that time they call you. Then you can simply specifically discuss the date and time of your visit, and then the post office workers make exceptions and leave it to you. But then you will have to pay for each day. Since 30 days are free and then there is paid storage.

Court items must be picked up at the post office no later than 07 days.

Other items must be stored for 30 days.

But, I had such a thing that I received it in the mail 2 weeks later, and the letter was already sent back to the sender. It was just in vain that I stood in line.

Once a re-notice is sent, storage fees may apply.

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Therefore, if you are waiting for a letter or parcel, you need to look in your mailbox more often.

If I'm not mistaken, it can be stored for a month. Every week, you will receive a notification to pick up your parcel. If there is no reaction from you, then after a month, your parcel will be sent to the addressee. It may indeed be true that subsequent storage will cost money. But my parcel was sent to the addressee, after which they sent a notification. So don't delay.

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" stores letters, parcels and parcels for 30 days, then the item not received by the addressee is sent back to the sender's address, and in order to receive the returned item, the sender will have to pay for return shipping of the item. It should also be noted that court letters are stored for only 7 days.

By law, the parcel is stored at the post office for free for thirty days from the date of receipt. in practice, thanks to some internal rules, the post office considers it has the right to charge a fee for supposed storage from the moment the repeated notification is sent. I've encountered this several times.

Depending on what country you are in, in Russia parcels are stored for free for exactly 30 days, and then either returned to the addressee or stored for money. But it’s better not to delay until the last day; they may already have time to issue a refund.

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How long can a parcel be stored at the post office for free?

Delivery times for parcels can vary significantly; even if the first parcel from one online store arrived in 10 days, this does not mean that the second one will also arrive at the post office in 10 days. There are many factors influencing the speed of delivery, including holidays/weekends, postal workload, the chosen delivery method, etc. Therefore, if you are going to leave somewhere in the near future (vacation, business trip), but want to receive the parcel before departure, you should take this into account and place your order with plenty of time.

After the parcel arrives at the post office, from where the addressee must pick it up, the addressee is notified on the day the parcel arrives or the next day (depending on the arrival of the cargo, if it arrived before lunch, then the notification is given on the same day, if after lunch - to the next one), which the recipient needs to fill out and exchange for the parcel. If five days after sending the notice the addressee has not picked up the parcel, a second notice is sent to him, and at this stage it depends whether the parcel will remain in the mail for a fee for the next few days or not.

So, if the second notice was simply placed in the mailbox, and not delivered personally, then the parcel will remain at the post office absolutely free for another 25 days, and the recipient can come and pick it up at any time, without paying a penny for storage. Five days before the end of the storage period, the last - third notice is sent to the addressee (naturally, this notice is issued only if the item continues to lie in the mail warehouse). If the parcel remains unclaimed, it is sent back to the sender.

If the repeated notice was delivered in person, and the addressee put his signature on the spine of the notice, then starting from the sixth day, a fee will be charged for storing the parcel at the post office. The storage fee depends on the tariff at the time of receipt of the parcel (tariffs can be found both at your post office and on the official website of the Russian Post - https://www.pochta.ru/, or by calling the support service at 5-888) .

However, it is worth considering that the fee depends on the size of the parcel; in 2017, most post offices charge about 20 rubles for storing small packages, and 30 rubles for medium ones. That is, for 10 days of storage you will need to pay 200 or 300 rubles, respectively, in general, as you can see, the pleasure is not cheap. Therefore, in order not to lose extra money, it is better to pick up the parcel as early as possible. It is worth remembering that if, after receiving a second notification, you pick up the parcel on the same day, but after lunch, you will still have to pay for one day of storage.

From all of the above, we can conclude that for the first five days any parcel at the post office is stored free of charge, the remaining days depend on whether the addressee was personally notified of the parcel’s arrival or not.

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How long does the post office keep a parcel?

It's always nice to receive gifts. And gifts sent by mail, too. It doesn’t matter whether we paid for the ordered goods ourselves or our relatives sent us something we needed, waiting and receiving the package is a pleasure. However, circumstances may arise such that receiving the parcel immediately upon its arrival at the post office is difficult, and the question arises: how long is the parcel stored at the post office. We usually ask the same questions about storing a parcel or registered letter at the post office.

What is a package

A parcel is a type of postal item with strictly standardized dimensions and a weight of over 2 kg, intended for sending things, printed materials, and paper documents. Parcels weighing less than 3 kg are called small, from 10 kg - heavy.

Parcels come with declared value and cash on delivery.

There are items prohibited for shipment; their list is approved by the Government of the Russian Federation. In particular, sending alcohol and tobacco is prohibited. The same applies to jewelry, weapons, animals and plants.

There are domestic and international parcels. The deadlines for internal passage are established by the Russian Post and information about them is available on the postal website and in branches. The timing of passage and delivery by international mail depends on the mail of the sender’s country and, not least of all, on the length of time the goods being sent are at customs.

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Also, the timing depends on the delivery method, the characteristics of postal operators in different countries, the distance from the sender to the recipient, the time of year and associated weather conditions, and even national holidays.

For example, a product ordered in China may be delayed for more than two months if you placed an order in November. At this time, the number of orders reaches its peak, because the European New Year and Christmas are just around the corner. It is also necessary to take into account the Chinese New Year, which falls in February.

There is a way out of this situation - you can always use EMS and DHL services. But such delivery will cost more. Delivery times for goods purchased on Aliexpress also depend on the selected operator (international operators will deliver on average one and a half times faster).

Postal storage period

Russian Post has established that all postal items are stored in the office at the destination for no more than 30 days from the date of their receipt. Based on the application of the addressee (recipient), this period can be extended. The application is filled out in the prescribed form with the presentation of a passport. The maximum storage period is 2 months from the date of registration.

The addressee (recipient) is notified by mail through a notice sent to him. Upon presentation of the notice and passport, the parcel is handed over to the recipient. If it turns out to be unclaimed within 5 days, a second notification is sent by mail, which must be delivered against signature; from that moment on, storage of the parcel at the post office becomes paid.

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However, please note that the fact of receipt of a repeated notification must be confirmed by the signature of the recipient. Otherwise, the notice is formally considered undelivered and the collection of storage fees is unlawful.

And another important point: if, upon receipt of a repeated notification, you come to pick up the parcel immediately the next day, then the storage fee for the previous day will not be charged.

After the expiration of the established storage period, the parcels are sent to the return address. The sender pays for this shipping.

Parcels returned and unclaimed by the sender are destroyed after 6 months.

Tariffs for postal storage are freely available on information stands in all post offices.

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Nowadays, it is common to purchase goods from online stores and they are delivered to us exclusively by mail. A significant part of their total volume consists of parcels from China - from the Aliexpress store (ali express in Russian transcription). The same rules apply to their registration in Russia as for other postal items. And, accordingly, parcels from China are stored at the post office for the same periods as others.

Parcels from Avon

It is also worth telling how long Avon products are stored at the post office. The products offered by this company are popular in our country and are ordered by both individuals and official distributors. For the latter, the issue of storage time is especially relevant, since unclaimed orders are sent back after the established period, and the unlucky recipient is fined.

If your order is placed as urgent, it must be picked up within two days. AVON products are stored at the post office for no more than 3 days. If the order is not received, it is sent back and disbanded within 45 days.

To avoid unpleasant situations associated with non-receipt on time, you can play it safe by appointing a trusted person who will receive Avon products at your point of delivery, and track orders on the AVON website in the order information section.

Orders should be received at Russian Post offices, at special collection points. Their addresses are listed on the company's website. The items are divided into groups, each of which has its own delivery day. For example, group A has Monday.

AVON express orders are delivered only to locations in cities where the company has assembly lines.

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Tracking Methods

In most cases, the arrival of a package at the post office is an expected event. Often, after ordering a product from an online store, we impatiently await the mail notification. And here modern technologies come to our aid.

All parcels are recorded in a unified information system and using the tracking number of the item you can track its status and location online on the Russian Post website. Here you can subscribe using the parcel tracking number. A smartphone app also helps you track your shipment.

Parcels from China also have their own track number. But here you need to know the differences in numbering and be able to read the track number. Parcels with numbers starting and ending with two Latin letters with nine numbers in the middle are registered as international shipments and can be tracked at any point along the route.

Numbers consisting of only numbers without spaces, letters or other characters indicate that such a shipment can only be tracked on the territory of the People's Republic of China. Sending such a parcel is cheaper for the seller.

Receipt

They receive the parcel upon presentation of their passport and against receipt. If the shipment is accompanied by an inventory, then it is opened directly at the post office and the contents are checked against the items named in the list. If the addressee refuses to open it, a note to this effect is made on the address form.

Along with checking the inventory, the parcel is weighed, making sure that the weight indicated upon departure corresponds to the weight upon delivery.

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If the parcel was opened before your receipt and a substitution or shortage was discovered, then the incident is documented in an official document in four copies.

The parcel is paid by cash on delivery at the destination, and a postal commission is charged on top of the price of the goods.

In general, knowing the rules and storage periods, you can always calculate when it is more convenient for you to come to the post office, without the risk that you will have to pay extra for storage or that your shipment will be sent to the return address.

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How can you find out at the post office that the equipment sent, for example, from China is in good working order? It may look intact, but somewhere along the way the package was abandoned and something inside broke. After all, when you find out about this at home, it will be too late.

Now I would like to note that the post office has begun to work better and deliver parcels faster. And now they are less likely to get lost.

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It probably happened to every person that a parcel or letter arrived at the post office, but he could not pick it up immediately upon arrival.

In such situations, such a function of post offices as the preservation of parcels for a certain period of time is very useful.

How long a parcel is stored at the Russian post office, how parcels from China and other countries, registered and court letters are stored - about everything in order.

All parcels and letters are sent to the department associated with the addressee’s place of residence.

Items are stored at the post office for 30 days from the moment of its arrival at the office, processing of the item and notification of the addressee.

After this, the letter or parcel is sent and re-sent to the sender at his expense.

The initial notice of the parcel's arrival is usually placed in the recipient's mailbox. Having received it, the recipient can safely take the passport and go receive the parcel.

If no one picks up the parcel within 5 days, a postman is sent to the recipient's address and personally delivers the notice.

But, as practice shows, postal employees rarely give a secondary notice for signature and simply put it in the mail.

How long is a parcel stored at the post office for free? Free storage is valid for 5 days only. That is, in the period of time between the sending of the primary and secondary notice.

If, even after the secondary notification (not counting the day of delivery), no one has picked up the parcel, storage becomes paid.

Moreover, if the postman simply put the notice in the mailbox and there is no signature of the recipient on it, the addressee has the right not to pay for the accrued penalty.

The amount of charges for additional storage of the parcel may vary. It depends on the tariffs set by a particular postal operator.

For many people, ordering something from China becomes a real problem, primarily because of the delivery conditions.

This is logical, because the parcel delivery route is quite long and during its journey to the recipient it can:

• come to the wrong department;
• get there, but take a long time to process by Russian Post;
• not to come at all.

There are often cases when a parcel arrives from China and is listed in the department, but the recipient does not receive any notification of the shipment.

In such cases, the parcel may remain in the post office for the maximum possible period of time and, upon completion, will be sent back to China.

So, how long does a parcel from China stay at the Russian post office? The duration of storage greatly depends on the dimensions of the parcel.

Most often, people order small goods from Aliexpress, which in size are considered not a parcel, but a parcel post. Typically, such parcels are subject to standard storage conditions at the Russian Post Office.

But they only apply if the seller has assigned the status of in-demand and ordered the return shipment of the parcel in case of non-collection.

In most cases, parcels from Aliexpress are considered unclaimed. At first, everything happens as standard: when the parcel arrives, you receive a notification, then after a while another one.

If the recipient does not pick up the parcel, it is stored at the Russian Post Office for another six months. If no one receives the parcel within this period, it is assigned the status of unclaimed and destroyed.

According to the terms of Aliexpress, at the time of ordering, the buyer immediately pays for the parcel, but this money is not sent to the seller until the parcel is received.

If the shipment is not received for some reason (for example, the package did not arrive), the buyer can write to the store’s support service and get their money back. In this case, he remains at a loss, since the item does not come back to him, and he does not receive the money.

If the buyer simply does not pick up the parcel of his own free will, then after the order protection period expires, the money is credited to him automatically and the buyer, although he did not receive the order, will not be able to return the money.

A standard letter is usually simply thrown by the postman into the mailbox and that’s it; a registered letter is delivered differently.

In most cases, such letters contain important information regarding a person’s interactions with some government agencies, insurance services, and so on.

When sending a registered letter, a receipt confirmation is attached to it. When it arrives at its destination, the postman must personally deliver this notice to the recipient.

The recipient will need to sign a special form indicating that he has been notified of the arrival of the registered letter.

If the recipient does not pick up the registered letter within 5 days, he is sent a second notification. The postman also brings it and hands it directly to the signature.

If after this time no one comes for the letter, but there is a personal signature of the recipient in the notices, the post office begins to charge a penalty. After the moment of its accrual, the letter can be stored in the mail for another 1 month.

As a result, the shelf life of a registered letter at the department is 30 working days.. The recipient has the right to extend the storage period of this letter (whether it is valuable or registered) up to 2 months.

To do this, you need to come to the post office and make a written application.

How long is a court letter kept at the post office and are the conditions for its storage different in any way? A judicial parcel is a parcel or a letter directly, which is sent to the addressee from the judicial authorities and the prosecutor's office.

Most often, such items contain subpoenas, decisions of court cases, rulings or decisions.

The envelopes of court letters are specially stamped and are all accompanied by a return receipt.

All judicial parcels must be handed to the addressee (they are not thrown into a box and should not lie in the mail) with his personal signature confirming receipt.

If for some reason the recipient is not at home at the time of service of the court letter, an adult family member can receive it.

This authority is explained by the fact that the judicial letter is urgent and the recipient must be notified of the contents of the parcel as quickly as possible.

Court letters are stored at post offices for much less time than regular items. This is due to the fact that after a fairly short period of time, the letter simply becomes irrelevant.

The maximum duration of storage of a court letter is 7 calendar days (including weekends). If the addressee does not receive the letter, it is sent back to the appropriate authority. There they file him into the case.

It is noteworthy that there is no charge for sending court letters and sending them back.

Note! Even if you did not receive the court letter in your hands and it was sent back, in fact the letter is automatically considered received.

The authority that sent the letter will simply put a note on the file about the direction of the letter and will not look into whether the addressee read it or not (that is, he will be considered notified even in such a situation).

As a result, it may turn out that the prosecutor’s office or court may pin something on a person without his knowledge, and it will be too late to resolve the situation.

Sometimes there are situations when a court letter at the post office is issued as a regular registered letter. As already mentioned, such letters are stored in the mail for 30 days.

It turns out that the recipient, for example, 10 days later comes for a letter, but it has already gone back to the prosecutor’s office or court with all the consequences for the addressee.

In such situations, you need to deal with the postal service and notify the appropriate authority that the letter was not received through no fault of the recipient (this is done by sending the letter).

If all this is done, responsibility from the addressee will automatically be removed and nothing will threaten him.

What does “expiration date” mean? This means that all limits on free and paid parcel storage at the post office have expired.

So what to do if the shelf life of the parcel at the post office has expired? Everything again depends on the type of shipment.

If this is a regular shipment, you can contact the post office and try to find and receive the parcel (as already indicated, it will be considered unclaimed and will be stored at the post office for another six months).

If the shipment was registered or valuable, it will most likely be sent to the sender after the expiration of the storage period. In this case, it will no longer be possible to return the parcel.

But you should still contact the post office and clarify the location of the shipment. It is quite possible that despite the expiration of the storage period, postal employees have not yet sent the parcel back and it can still be received.

If the recipient has been sent a judicial letter, he is primarily interested in receiving the letter on time. So if you receive this, you better get it right away.

Russian Post has limited storage periods for parcels and letters. The duration directly depends on the type of departure:

If the recipient was unable to receive the parcel on time, he needs to contact the department and check whether the parcel is still there or not.

Regular shipments will most likely be able to be received even if the storage period has expired. For registered and judicial shipments this is most often not relevant.

Shipping cash on delivery. There is no time to pick it up, but they call and argue, saying that the parcel is not stored for free. 4 days have passed. I'll pick it up tomorrow. Do they have the right to charge me anything extra?

After 7 days (court letters have 3 days), after delivery of the first notice, you must be personally handed a second notice by signature. If you were not found at home, the notice should be placed in the mailbox. From the next day you may be charged money for storage. Post offices should have tariffs, including for this service. The amount of the storage fee depends on the number of days from the reporting point (the next day after delivery of the secondary notice). There is a delicate moment. If the notice was not handed to you personally against signature, then it is difficult to prove the fact of its delivery, unless, of course, you come with it yourself. You can try to beat this moment (come without notice, you have to write out a new one and hand it over), but I don’t think the game is worth the candle. Most likely, they will charge little for storage, and there is a limit on the amount of the fee. The shelf life of 30 days is a little different. After this time (judicial ones earlier), your mail will be sent back, unless of course you have an application to increase the storage period, but such an application will also be accepted with the appropriate payment.

Explanations from the official website of Russian Post:

Thus we see that The parcel is stored for 30 days. But not for free. The post office decided that after serving the repeated notice it could charge a storage fee.

There are new areas in our city where postmen do not go at all, explaining that they cannot serve such a huge territory. Accordingly, notifications are not given and people simply do not know that the parcel has arrived. And the post office may already charge a fee.

The shelf life of a parcel at the post office is 30 days from the moment it arrived at the post office and you do not have to pay for this time, but if you need more time, you can extend the storage time for another month, but here you will have to pay (amount determined by mail, this needs to be clarified in each individual case.)

To do this, you need to write an application with your passport details and bring it to the post office, any authorized person can do this for you and remember any simple parcels, letters and postcards are not returned, but are destroyed after 6 months of storage, since they are considered unclaimed.

If I'm not mistaken, it can be stored for a month. Every week, you will receive a notification to pick up your parcel. If there is no reaction from you, then after a month, your parcel will be sent to the addressee. It may indeed be true that subsequent storage will cost money. But my parcel was sent to the addressee, after which they sent a notification. So don't delay.

Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" stores letters, parcels and parcels for 30 days, then the item not received by the addressee is sent back to the sender's address, and in order to receive the returned item, the sender will have to pay for return shipping of the item. It should also be noted that court letters are stored for only 7 days.

By law, the parcel is stored at the post office for free for thirty days from the date of receipt. in practice, thanks to some internal rules, the post office considers it has the right to charge a fee for supposed storage from the moment the repeated notification is sent. I've encountered this several times.

Depending on what country you are in, in Russia parcels are stored for free for exactly 30 days, and then either returned to the addressee or stored for money. But it’s better not to delay until the last day; they may already have time to issue a refund.

Parcel storage period at Russian Post and tracking of shipments

No matter how technology develops, Russian post remains in demand for sending and receiving parcels. Current shipping rules, how long a parcel is stored at Russian Post and much more - you can read about this in the article.

Since all postal items are now recorded in a single system, it is possible to track your parcel via the Internet. This is very convenient, because the shelf life of parcels at Russian Post is limited, and written notifications are often lost.

To track, it is enough to know the tracking number of the shipment. On the official website of the Russian Post, on the left there is a column “Services”; the first line in this block contains a service that allows you to monitor parcels.

By clicking on the link, you will be taken to a page where the website address for tracking is posted. The tracking number of the shipment is indicated on the receipt, which is issued at the post office when registering the parcel. It contains 14 digits that must be entered into the search bar in a row, without allowing spaces or any other characters.

If you are the recipient of the package, you need to ask the sender to provide you with the tracking number.

In addition to the website, there is also a mobile application that will send notifications about how your mail is moving. You can also go through the registration procedure on the Russian Post website and subscribe using your shipment number. You will receive notifications by email about any change in the status of your parcel.

Storage period for parcels at Russian Post

The storage period for items is regulated by the rules of Russian Post. It's limited. You definitely need to know about this if you don’t want to run into difficulties. How long does the Russian Post keep a parcel?

The parcel will be waiting for you at the post office that corresponds to your place of residence. The storage period is only 30 days from the moment the parcel arrives at the post office. The storage periods for parcels sent by cash on delivery at Russian Post are similar.

Upon receipt, a notification will be issued and sent to the address indicated on the parcel. The notice is placed in the mailbox. After five working days, a second notification will be sent if the recipient has not arrived at the post office. If the recipient does not show up for the parcel within thirty days, it will be sent back. Return shipping costs are borne by the sender. If the latter refuses to receive and pay for what was returned, the parcel goes into the unclaimed section and is placed in a temporary storage warehouse.

There may be reasons why it is not possible to meet the agreed deadlines. To extend the storage period, the sender or recipient must write an application in the prescribed form with a request to extend the storage period. But you will have to pay for it according to the tariffs established by the post office.

When going to pick up a parcel, you need to have a neatly filled out notification and passport with you.

Parcel storage period at Russian Post (free)

The post office must store the parcel free of charge for up to five working days. Payment may be taken for subsequent days, but there is an important nuance. The secondary notification, which is sent to the recipient in case of failure to appear for the parcel according to the primary notification, must be handed over against signature. That is, the post office must have evidence that the recipient has been notified that a package is awaiting him. But this is usually not done.

The secondary notice, like the primary one, is usually simply dropped into the mailbox. Therefore, postal service employees cannot charge storage fees beyond the established five working days. But keep in mind that such a development of events is possible; it is specified in the mail rules.

If you received a secondary notification against signature, and not through a mailbox, keep in mind that you only have one business day to pick up your parcel, otherwise you will have to pay for the service of storing your items at the post office.

So, let's sum it up a little. The shelf life of parcels at Russian Post (free) is 5 working days. Then it will be stored, but a fee may be charged for this. The general storage period for parcels at Russian Post is 30 days. After this, the parcel is sent back with a note that the storage period has expired.

You can receive the parcel only after identification documents have been presented. Postal items are issued against receipt. At the time of delivery, the weight must be checked; it must match what is indicated in the accompanying documents. Home delivery of parcels is possible for an additional fee. The postman will definitely bring a notice.

If an inventory of the contents is attached to the parcel, then it will be necessary to open the package in the presence of a postal service employee in order to compare the contents with the inventory. If such opening is refused, the post office no longer bears responsibility for missing valuables or their replacement. If something similar is found at the post office, the employees will draw up a corresponding report in four copies.

If the parcel is issued by cash on delivery, then you can receive it only after full payment has been made. Not only the payment is paid, but also the postal commission for sending the money transfer.

Remember about the shelf life of parcels at Russian Post! Don't delay the receipt procedure!

Not only do parcels have a limited shelf life at the post office, there are also regulations for postal transfers. What is the shelf life of a parcel at Russian Post? Do you already know what can be said about the translation?

The translation is also stored for thirty days, unless there is an application from the addressee or sender to extend the period.

Russian Post is one of the organizations whose clients are constantly dissatisfied with something. Either the service is slow, or they are rude, or they lose the packages. However, the population continues to use the services of this logistics company. Many customers, when ordering goods from various online stores, are interested in how long the package is stored at Russian Post. Let's look at this issue in detail.

Old rules

Relatively recently, Russian Post had conditions that were quite comfortable for many customers. Previously, everyone knew how long a parcel was stored at Russian Post. This period was thirty days. This time was enough for even slow clients to pick up their things.

Having received the parcel, employees at the Russian Post prepared a notice and sent it to the addressee, reporting the delivery received. Five days later a second notification was sent. If even after this the addressee did not appear, his parcel had to be sent back after the expiration of the storage period, that is, thirty days. It was like that before.

Free storage

New rules have now come into effect. The answer to the question of how long a package is stored at Russian Post has changed. Slow customers need to quickly pick up their shipments.

Large postal items, which include parcels, can now stay at Russian Post for no more than fifteen days. The countdown starts from the next date after arrival. For example, if the parcel was delivered to the department on the fifth day, then the sixth day will be considered the first day of storage.

Moreover, you need to understand that in the answer to the question how long the parcel is stored at Russian Post, calendar days are indicated. This is inconvenient for users. After all, the storage period may include holidays and weekends. Russian Post is not working at this time, and the client is physically unable to pick up his parcel.

It should be understood that the last day of storage of the parcel is considered the date of its return. If a slow client waited until the last moment, Russian Post could have an unpleasant surprise in store for him. On this day, the parcel could already be returned to the sender. To avoid such situations, you should try to pick up your shipment on time. In fact, we can assume that the parcel is stored for two weeks. If you count on this period, and not on fifteen days, you will not miscalculate.

Reasons for changes

The active development of online commerce has led to customers ordering a huge number of goods. They need to be stored somewhere. Russian Post does not have such huge warehouse space that it can accommodate all incoming parcels and store them for thirty days.

In this regard, the organization has prepared an innovation. How long is a parcel stored at Russian Post under the new rules? Now this period is only fifteen days. As you know, it used to be thirty days. That is, it decreased exactly by half. This will allow Russian Post to free up utility rooms that were previously cluttered with an abundance of parcels.

Paid storage

The new rules provide an interesting opportunity for clients. Now they can increase the storage period for parcels to two months. This is four times longer than the standard fifteen days. However, you need to understand that you will have to pay extra for such privileges.

Let's assume that the client receives the parcel with cash on delivery. The retention period expires, but he is unable to deposit the requested amount. In this case, the storage period can be extended. But upon receiving the parcel you will have to pay a large amount. After all, now it will include a paid storage service. It is possible that due to such innovations the organization will lose customers.

Now you know how long a package is stored at Russian Post for free and for a fee.