Underrated Quality of Life Indicator: Reliability of Postal Services

You only truly appreciate good postal services after living in a country with unreliable ones. While African countries might come to mind, problems often start much closer to home. For example, Belgium has previously ranked below Moldova in international postal service rankings. In some cases, package delivery becomes a numbers game — with loss or theft rates reaching as high as 50%.

Below is a list of the world’s top-performing postal services.

Source: Statista

There are countries that don’t have postal services at all. Panama for example has not door to door services for mail. You have to get a mailbox.
If your postal services are unreliable, then there are two options:

Get a mailbox, maildrop or commercial mail receiving agent in your country of residence. This often improves reliability.
If this is not an option, get a mailbox abroad in a reliable country and pick up the mail from time to time or have it forwarded via FedEx.

Here is the complete international ranking of postal services:

Rank	Country	Region	IPD Score
1	Switzerland	Europe	100.00
2	Germany	Europe	97.99
3	Austria	Europe	97.73
4	Japan	Asia-Pacific	97.29
5	France	Europe	96.46
6	Netherlands	Europe	96.36
7	Singapore	Asia-Pacific	95.98
8	United Kingdom	Europe	95.84
9	United States	Americas	95.37
10	Slovenia	Europe	94.74
11	Denmark	Europe	94.54
12	Norway	Europe	94.29
13	Finland	Europe	94.15
14	Belgium	Europe	93.87
15	Australia	Asia-Pacific	93.46
16	Canada	Americas	93.16
17	Luxembourg	Europe	92.82
18	New Zealand	Asia-Pacific	92.65
19	Sweden	Europe	92.43
20	Estonia	Europe	92.28
21	Ireland	Europe	91.92
22	Portugal	Europe	91.84
23	Czechia	Europe	91.68
24	Spain	Europe	91.52
25	Poland	Europe	91.37
26	Italy	Europe	91.24
27	Lithuania	Europe	91.07
28	Hungary	Europe	90.85
29	Latvia	Europe	90.64
30	Malta	Europe	90.23
31	Slovakia	Europe	89.97
32	Cyprus	Europe	89.87
33	Korea (Rep.)	Asia-Pacific	89.56
34	Greece	Europe	89.44
35	Croatia	Europe	89.37
36	Bulgaria	Europe	89.16
37	Romania	Europe	88.92
38	Israel	Arab States	88.64
39	Turkey	Europe	88.41
40	Hong Kong (China)	Asia-Pacific	88.09
41	China	Asia-Pacific	87.98
42	Serbia	Europe	87.74
43	Qatar	Arab States	87.67
44	United Arab Emirates	Arab States	87.54
45	Kuwait	Arab States	87.22
46	Saudi Arabia	Arab States	87.16
47	Brazil	Americas	86.94
48	South Africa	Africa	86.88
49	Malaysia	Asia-Pacific	86.74
50	Thailand	Asia-Pacific	86.51
51	Morocco	Africa	86.37
52	India	Asia-Pacific	85.79
53	Philippines	Asia-Pacific	85.74
54	Indonesia	Asia-Pacific	85.65
55	Vietnam	Asia-Pacific	85.55
56	Ukraine	Europe	85.39
57	Egypt	Arab States	85.12
58	Belarus	Europe	84.98
59	Chile	Americas	84.92
60	Argentina	Americas	84.75
61	Colombia	Americas	84.67
62	Peru	Americas	84.43
63	Pakistan	Asia-Pacific	84.26
64	Mexico	Americas	83.97
65	Jordan	Arab States	83.84
66	Oman	Arab States	83.76
67	Algeria	Arab States	83.69
68	Tunisia	Arab States	83.58
69	Kazakhstan	Europe	83.41
70	Uzbekistan	Europe	83.24
71	Georgia	Europe	83.18
72	Azerbaijan	Europe	83.09
73	Armenia	Europe	82.96
74	Kyrgyzstan	Europe	82.84
75	Moldova	Europe	82.71
76	Mongolia	Asia-Pacific	82.64
77	Sri Lanka	Asia-Pacific	82.56
78	Bangladesh	Asia-Pacific	82.43
79	Nepal	Asia-Pacific	82.31
80	Myanmar	Asia-Pacific	82.19
81	Laos	Asia-Pacific	82.07
82	Cambodia	Asia-Pacific	81.95
83	Brunei	Asia-Pacific	81.83
84	Maldives	Asia-Pacific	81.71
85	Bhutan	Asia-Pacific	81.59
86	Afghanistan	Asia-Pacific	81.47
87	Iran	Asia-Pacific	81.35
88	Iraq	Arab States	81.23
89	Syria	Arab States	81.11
90	Lebanon	Arab States	80.99
91	Yemen	Arab States	80.87
92	Palestine	Arab States	80.75
93	Sudan	Africa	80.63
94	Libya	Africa	80.51
95	Somalia	Africa	80.39
96	Djibouti	Africa	80.27
97	Eritrea	Africa	80.15
98	Ethiopia	Africa	80.03
99	Kenya	Africa	79.91
100	Uganda	Africa	79.79
101	Tanzania	Africa	79.67
102	Rwanda	Africa	79.55
103	Burundi	Africa	79.43
104	South Sudan	Africa	79.31
105	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Africa	79.19
106	Republic of the Congo	Africa	79.07
107	Gabon	Africa	78.95
108	Cameroon	Africa	78.83
109	Central African Republic	Africa	78.71
110	Chad	Africa	78.59
111	Sudan (North)	Africa	78.47
112	Ghana	Africa	78.35
113	Nigeria	Africa	78.23
114	Benin	Africa	78.11
115	Togo	Africa	77.99
116	Burkina Faso	Africa	77.87
117	Mali	Africa	77.75
118	Niger	Africa	77.63
119	Senegal	Africa	77.51
120	Gambia	Africa	77.39
121	Guinea	Africa	77.27
122	Guinea-Bissau	Africa	77.15
123	Sierra Leone	Africa	77.03
124	Liberia	Africa	76.91
125	Côte d’Ivoire	Africa	76.79
126	Gabon	Africa	76.67
127	Equatorial Guinea	Africa	76.55
128	Sao Tome and Principe	Africa	76.43
129	Angola	Africa	76.31
130	Namibia	Africa	76.19
131	Botswana	Africa	76.07
132	Zimbabwe	Africa	75.95
133	Zambia	Africa	75.83
134	Malawi	Africa	75.71
135	Mozambique	Africa	75.59
136	Madagascar	Africa	75.47
137	Comoros	Africa	75.35
138	Seychelles	Africa	75.23
139	Mauritius	Africa	75.11
140	Reunion	Africa	74.99
141	Mayotte	Africa	74.87
142	Lesotho	Africa	74.75
143	Swaziland	Africa	74.63
144	South Sudan	Africa	74.51
145	Eritrea	Africa	74.39
146	Somalia	Africa	74.27
147	Djibouti	Africa	74.15
148	Equatorial Guinea	Africa	74.03
149	Central African Republic	Africa	73.91
150	Chad	Africa	73.79
151	Saint Kitts and Nevis	Americas	73.67
152	Antigua and Barbuda	Americas	73.55
153	Dominica	Americas	73.43
154	Saint Lucia	Americas	73.31
155	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Americas	73.19
156	Grenada	Americas	73.07
157	Barbados	Americas	72.95
158	Trinidad and Tobago	Americas	72.83
159	Bahamas	Americas	72.71
160	Belize	Americas	72.59
161	Guyana	Americas	72.47
162	Suriname	Americas	72.35
163	French Guiana	Americas	72.23
164	Fiji	Asia-Pacific	72.11
165	Solomon Islands	Asia-Pacific	71.99
166	Vanuatu	Asia-Pacific	71.87
167	Papua New Guinea	Asia-Pacific	71.75
168	Samoa	Asia-Pacific	71.63
169	Tonga	Asia-Pacific	71.51
170	Kiribati	Asia-Pacific	71.39
171	Tuvalu	Asia-Pacific	71.27
172	Nauru	Asia-Pacific	71.15

Source: Universal Postal Union. [PDF Link]

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