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I still love the old ways – receiving postal mails or gifts. There is this tiny flare of excitement as you open the envelope and unfold the letter. The sender’s choice of stationery, the handwriting of the sender and the color of the ink – all of these seem to embody the soul of the person who is sending the letter.

Isn’t it great to receive a postal letter from your love ones? Well, as long as it is not about troubles, bills or bad news.

Anyway, my sister has requested me to send a gift to her boss in Canada. It is actually a souvenir (a Burj Al Arab figurine). Since they haven’t meet yet and most likely will not be meeting soon, she decided to mail that souvenir to her. You may wonder what she does as why they haven’t meet yet. My sister is working online.

So I wrapped carefully the figurine with bubble wrap and placed it in a sturdy box. Then I sealed the box properly and pasted the address label.

I oftentimes go to the post office located near Madinat Zayed in Muroor Street because it’s the closest to my home. I recommend going there late in the afternoon like after five because the queue is less compared in the morning.

I visited the place a couple of times and it was always in the morning. There was always a rush, a crowd and long queue.

Anyway, there is a small reception desk  in the left corner as you enter the main entrance. Just tell the gentleman that you want to send a parcel an he will give you a priority number.

You have options either to send it express or just the normal post. Since my parcel was fragile, I was asked to send it through Empost (the express one). Then I completed the form and declared the content.

Actually, I didn’t seal the other end of the box just in case they would check the content but while waiting I saw one gentleman (his box was five times bigger) and it was totally sealed. They didn’t ask him to open it. So I guessed that there would be no checking of the box contents.

While waiting for my turn,  I sealed it completely.

They charged AED 130 (US$ 35) for that parcel bound Canada and it weighed around 0.6 kilo. I remembered during the time that my sister inquired, they charge AED 130 for parcels that weigh 1 kilo or less.

Then they gave me a receipt with alphanumeric details on it. I came to know in their website that you can actually check online the status of your parcel. Just enter the alphanumeric data in UAE post track and trace site and you will see the details from the day it was posted until its current status.