Mail me directly overseas:
Uzbekistan
706800 Navoi
Box
51
Attn: Shari Van Ness / Peace Corps
Tips for mailing:
- The Uzbekistan postal system works with addresses exactly the opposite of U.S. post. Thats why the country is in the first
line. It seems to help the U.S. post office if you just write Uzbekistan somewhere under the whole address.
- Airmail seems to be taking about 2 to 3 weeks to get to me and costs 80 cents for a letter.
- Surface mail can take about 3 months but then again, some PCVs have received mail from the U.S. in 6 days.
- Number your letters so I know if I missed one.
- If you sent mail to the Tashkent address, it will still get to me. It just will take longer.
- Here is a link to the U.S. Postal Service International Rate Calculator
http://ircalc.usps.gov
Mail is not as likely to be opened as it was when going to Tashkent. But, it is still tough to shake the Soviet era suspicious
thinking so there is a possibility that mail will be opened and items may be removed from packages or letters.
Including the address in Cyrillic will definitely speed up delivery. Cut the address from this page and paste or tape
it as a label on your mail along with the English address.
The best thing to do is to buy phone cards for international calls. Call rates from U.S. to Uzbekistan at this time (July
2002) are 10¢ per minute through www.justphonecards.com thats just $3.00 for a half hour call! These international phone cards are cheap but unstable. You
should buy one for one call and use it as soon as possible.
From the U.S., you would dial 011-998-79-22-39548. I'm usually home by 6:00 on weeknights, which would be 9:00 in the morning
in Connecticut. Since this is the number for my apartment, feel free to call anytime. I won't mind being wakened to hear your
voice and you wont be charged if Im not home.
FOR EMERGENCIES:
Peace Corps - Office of Special Services
1-800-424-8580 ext. 1470
or 202-692-1470
After working hours call 202-638-2574
and ask for the Peace Corps duty officer.
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