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No hassle with regular mails/postcards from my embassy or from homecountry.

I receive my regular mail in the regular box of the building, even if my name is missing from the box

I get registered letter at Post Office, as I spend weekdays at the office.

I have sent a registerd letter only once, to my homecountry, and it was overly expensive. Most probably a fast currier like UPS, DHL, etc.. would have had been slightly cheaper but surely more reliable than national post systems.

Magyarposta is not the most reliable or fastest postal service.

E.g. we once received a letter from the Immigration office after the deadline stated in that letter - it traveled for days even though both addresses are within Budapest.

When I'm not in HU, I'm constantly concerned if an important letter with some deadline will arrive, whether it will be registered mail and returned to sender...

Lately, I gave authorization to 2 friends so they can pick up my mail, but it's all very inconvenient.

I'd love it if Magyarposta would send me an email each time there's a registered mail which might be returned to sender if no one picks it up within a number of days

Magyarposta is not the most reliable or fastest postal service.
E.g. we once received a letter from the Immigration office after the deadline stated in that letter - it traveled for days even though both addresses are within Budapest.
When I'm not in HU, I'm constantly concerned if an important letter with some deadline will arrive, whether it will be registered mail and returned to sender...

Lately, I gave authorization to 2 friends so they can pick up my mail, but it's all very inconvenient.

I'd love it if Magyarposta would send me an email each time there's a registered mail which might be returned to sender if no one picks it up within a number of days - @markons

Maybe you can get it redirected to somewhere else, even internationally.

Magyar Posta is dreadful.  I do agree.  I think it's almost a kind of scam.  They try and hit people up for fees all the time.  I've had unsolicited post where they say tax is due. I always say, send it back.  That's really not what they want.  They want the fees. I just ignored them.

Regular post is slowly dying these days, now we have Emails. I dont send B'day or Christmas cards anymore. I send Ecards and often a bit about what we have been up to over the past year. If it's a local person, I give the card in person.can't remember the last time I bought a stamp or even how much they cost, local or international.

Magyarposta is not the most reliable or fastest postal service.
E.g. we once received a letter from the Immigration office after the deadline stated in that letter - it traveled for days even though both addresses are within Budapest.
When I'm not in HU, I'm constantly concerned if an important letter with some deadline will arrive, whether it will be registered mail and returned to sender...

Lately, I gave authorization to 2 friends so they can pick up my mail, but it's all very inconvenient.

I'd love it if Magyarposta would send me an email each time there's a registered mail which might be returned to sender if no one picks it up within a number of days - @markons

  Lets not even talk about how slow the post is here; I was sent a letter of deportation because the registered mail I sent to the US arrived slower then if the Pony Express used a row boat across the seas.

I sent myself a package about 14 years ago from the US to HU. After, hmm, 4 months we called the Postmasteer, no notice of it in our post box; Ran into several post offices , the large one in Keliti, a one just for packages and a couple others; Nada; 5 months later I finally decided to put in a claim for the insurance I bought in the US. Presto, within a couple days a notice to pick it up arrived. They had let it sit all those months in a warehouse in the Netherlands, God only knows why it was there in the first place. Good luck, I tell everyone to never mail me anything from the states. They never give notice to pick up. I will say however that a good 20 years ago, I got notice in person by the postman on a bicycle to pick up a package, he even brought a package on bike to my MIL,s house in Erd; Not sure why quality control as gotten so bad but it has. Those old packages arrived within a short 3 weeks when I had been quoted about 6 weeks for delivery.

Someone high up as dropped the ball.

Lets not even talk about how slow the post is here; I was sent a letter of deportation because the registered mail I sent to the US arrived slower then if the Pony Express used a row boat across the seas.I sent myself a package about 14 years ago from the US to HU. After, hmm, 4 months we called the Postmasteer, no notice of it in our post box; Ran into several post offices , the large one in Keliti, a one just for packages and a couple others; Nada; 5 months later I finally decided to put in a claim for the insurance I bought in the US. Presto, within a couple days a notice to pick it up arrived. They had let it sit all those months in a warehouse in the Netherlands, God only knows why it was there in the first place. Good luck, I tell everyone to never mail me anything from the states. They never give notice to pick up. I will say however that a good 20 years ago, I got notice in person by the postman on a bicycle to pick up a package, he even brought a package on bike to my MIL,s house in Erd; Not sure why quality control as gotten so bad but it has. Those old packages arrived within a short 3 weeks when I had been quoted about 6 weeks for delivery.Someone high up as dropped the ball. - @Marilyn Tassy

I think they've just not modernised or met new challenges. It's pathetic really.   They are actually contributing to their own collapse. 

In my own country, they've privatised it even though it's called Royal Mail (Royal is a reserved description, no-one can use it without permission).   I use UK postal services relatively regularly.  They lost a letter I sent with tracking but they compensated me with stamps.  Stamps!  Like I need those these days. I just buy my postage online, print the label myself or at the collection box,  stick the label on the envelope and drop it off after scanning it at the same collection box.  Now that's what they need to get a grip on in Hungary.

I understood slow HU mail back in 1978 when I mailed post cards to the US from here and I arrived back in the states about a month before they came. I mailed them out the first week of a 6 week trip .

It has not changed very much since then.Visited my mom and the mailman brought it to her door.

She said something arrived from you.

Bought time as they say!