Vienna - Post Report Question and Answers
How do you send and receive your letters and package mail? Are local postal facilities adequate?
We would only use the embassy post office. Never tried to mail or receive anything locally. - Aug 2026
Getting packages can be a pain. The Austrian Post is not the best. We rely on a nearby package collection place for most packages. There are many of these places through the city. - Sep 2022
Local post is surprisingly slow (I once received a Christmas card from elsewhere in the EU in April!) but DHL/FedEx/etc. are available. I received most mail through the mission. - Sep 2021
Diplomatic post. - Feb 2019
Diplomatic pouch. Occasionally I ordered a few things on Amazon's German site, which would deliver quickly to the local post office for pick-up. I never had any issues. - Jul 2018
The local post offices are more than adequate for sending and receiving packages; oftentimes, though, one must be prepared for the queues. - Nov 2017
DPO - Mar 2015
DPO, pouch, local mail. - Jul 2014
DPO - which is okay, but tends to run quite slow (2-3 weeks to get to the States). - Mar 2014
APO and pouch - APO takes about 10 days; pouch is longer as it's routed through Germany. The Austrian mail system is, unsurprisingly, excellent and in many cases faster than getting APO mail back to the U.S. - Aug 2013
We have DPO and pouch. Austrian mail is also good, and not too expensive. - May 2013
Through the Embassy DPO, but there are government mailboxes and post offices everywhere. - Jan 2013
DPO. It usually took about 2 weeks, but around the holidays things took over a month to get to us. - Aug 2011
DPO. Awesome! - Aug 2011
Diplomatic pouch and DPO. - Aug 2009
DPO. - Aug 2009
Local mail is expensive but reliable -- if not always fast. All of the world couriers are available (Fedex, DHL, etc). The embassy of course has APO/DPO and Pouch. - Jul 2009
APO but it's not good. - May 2008
Austria Post is pretty reliable. - Apr 2008
Via Austrian Mail. - Jan 2008