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Brazil is one of the 60+ nations that has no flight/carrier during May. I had the same problem where my package wasn't able to delivered & it sit in the post office warehouse for 3 months waiting for flight/carrier.

Today, there are dozens of nations that still have no flights int. Be advice not to sell or buy stamps on those nations.
Here's a list of those nations listed by the United States Postal (USPS):

International Mail Service Suspensions
Updated: July 17, 2020
The Postal Service™ is temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for certain destinations due to service impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Suspension Due to Foreign Postal Operator Service Suspension.

Bolivia
Ecuador
Madagascar
Peru
Chad
Honduras
Malawi
Rwanda
Cuba
Iraq
Nepal
South Africa
Dominican Republic
Libya
Panama
Turkmenistan
__________________________________________________________
Suspension Due to Unavailability of Transportation
Angola
Dominica
Mauritania
Tajikistan
Argentina
Fiji
Mauritius
Tanzania
Azerbaijan
French Guiana
Mongolia
Timor-Leste
Bermuda
French Polynesia
Myanmar
Tonga
Botswana
Gambia
New Caledonia
Turks & Caicos
Brunei
Guatemala
Papua New Guinea
Uganda
Cambodia
Guyana
Paraguay
Uruguay
Cameroon
Haiti
Republic of Congo
Uzbekistan
Cayman Islands
Ivory Coast
Samoa
Vanuatu
Chile
Jordan
Seychelles
Venezuela
Colombia
Kiribati
Sierra Leone
Yemen
Cook Islands
Kosovo
Sint Maarten
Zimbabwe
Costa Rica
Kyrgyzstan
Solomon Islands
Cuba
Laos
South Sudan
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Liberia
Sudan


Customers: please refrain from mailing items addressed to the countries listed here, until further notice.

These service disruptions affect Priority Mail Express International® (PMEI), Priority Mail International® (PMI), First-Class Mail International® (FCMI), First-Class Package International Service® (FCPIS®), International Priority Airmail® (IPA®), International Surface Air Lift® (ISAL®), and M-Bag® items.

Unless otherwise noted, service suspensions to a particular country do not affect delivery of military and diplomatic mail.

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21 Jul 2020
05:59:09pm

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Notice the label. When the suspension is over, you can simply repost it with no additional postage.

Roy

www.Buckacover.com

Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
22 Jul 2020
06:25:55am

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" .... I am also unsure why the post office accepts
these letters if they know service to the country is
discontinued. ...."

You are probably better off than hoping some geographically
challenged window clerk, trying to figure out if "British
Columbia" is a province of "Columbia," refuses to accept an
envelope.
Or just where this "New MEXICO" addressed envelope in English fits into
the scheme of things.

Patches
Liz
23 Jul 2020
12:38:50am

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I too am holding envelopes for a member in Brazil who were returned to me by Canada Post.

Canada Post will not accept mailings from Canada to many countries.

https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/our-company/news-and-media/service-alerts.page

My suggestion to members who live in countries where mail is not being accepted from a member's country who you are anticipating purchasing stamps from is that you refrain from bidding until such time as mail service returns to normal.

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Time to mail the letter again.

Brechinite
13 Aug 2020
06:44:32pm
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The same is happening here in Scotland and no doubt all over the world.

Last night I got a message at 11.30pm from a member saying they had not received their last 4 envelopes from me. At 03.34 I got a message saying that he had now received 2 envelopes. The worrying part is that they were the last two I sent him. The first two are still in the system?

A few hours later I got another message from a different member saying he had not received his envelope sent 2 and a half months ago.

Mail companies have lost personnel to covid. Customs have lost personnel to covid.

Air routes between countries have been cut or disappeared completely.

Distribution routes have disappeared completely or they have to be altered.

For Exampl:-

All mail into Australia only goes into one distribution centre. Mail that used to go to the West Coast of America was either going to Chicago or New York.

Some mail companies sent airmail packages by surface mail as there were no aircraft

All mail companies are saying it is busier than Christmas with all the added on-line purchasing in their own countries.

So patience is required as there is and will be a backlog of items for a very very long time especially as covid is now back on the increase throughout the world.

Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
14 Aug 2020
03:08:50am

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And there is always some exception to the general rule of thumb.
I have become used to small parcels from England and Scotland to
Texas taking a long two to three weeks. Two parcels from a
collection I've been buying were mailed from the same post office,
the same day, in Scotland, around August first and one arrived in
a week, the second two days later.
Whoda thunk that.

lerivage
15 Aug 2020
09:42:54am

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Early August I sent a parcel (19 pounds) from France to the US West Coast. It arrived in five days. This includes going thru customs. Great. This week I received a StampoRama mailing paid August 9, sent August 10, and received August 14. That's what we can name an efficient mail system. Michel

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cdj1122 said, "You are probably better off than hoping some geographically challenged window clerk, trying to figure out if "British Columbia" is a province of "Columbia," refuses to accept an envelope.

Or just where this "New MEXICO" addressed envelope in English fits into
the scheme of things."

My wife and I grew up in New Mexico, and have lived in British Columbia since 1973. We well know how little geography seems to be taught these days!

When we tell people we are from New Mexico, they almost invariably say, "Oh! Mexico! Great!" "No," we say, "New Mexico." More often than not we are met with a blank stare and have to say, "You know, the state between Texas and Arizona." That too often meets with blank stares.

We don't get that kind of reaction here in BC, because, well, we mostly talk to people who are fellow British Columbians. But I have no doubt if we travelled, we'd get puzzled looks.

When we lived in Ottawa, we travelled once to Boston where I was scheduled to have a physical exam prior to being discharged from the U.S. Navy. We were in a taxi when the driver asked where we were from. "We live in Ottawa," I said. "Ottawa? Where's that?"

Bob

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Americans, in general, are geographically illiterate and incurious. We are provincials of the dullest sort.

I could make a joke about British Columbia being between British Honduras and British Guiana, but outside this chat room, it, too, would be met with the blankest of stares.

As I've learned, geo geokes aint for yankee blokes

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