Just use your ordinary countries postal service and check Ukraine customs to see what is permitted to be sent in the mail there.It will get there.If I can send a small parcel by regular international air mail post from Australia to Krivoy Rog in Ukraine ( an out of the way place off the beaten track ) and it gets there o.k in 8 days, you will have no problems.
Keep value of items in parcels small and it will get there, contrary to what people say, I have sent 6 air mail parcels to Ukraine over past few years and they all made it to their recipients within 7 to 10 days of being posted from Oz.
Very few items disappear in the mail in Ukraine now days.
Don't send things like jewellery or cash to Ukraine, hard currency of any sort posted into Ukraine is prohibited by there customs and they will conviscate it.
I used to have a link showing how to address letters in the FSU but it is dead now. Anyone have something similar? I am taking it for granted that it will need to be addressed in Cyrillic and Latin.
But don't expect it to be delivered by a postman in Ukraine, if it has a western stamp then every chance it will not make it to its destination, it may be opened to look for money.
Well, that doesn't always happen. I wrote my ex in Russia for over three years, using the US-Russian postal systems, and nothing was stolen. I did begin by using a mail forwarding company not attached to agency. I can't locate their address now.
Obviously, I wish that I chosen more wisely but thats water under the vridge now.
i have found the women are more reliable then the mail system in Ukraine.
at least you can see the end.
still amazes me how corrupt they are over a poxy letter.
I have sent mail both to Russia and Ukraine. I have had better luck with Russia. I have a bad habit of wanting to enclose an American candy bar in the envelope. All of those I sent to Russia made it but I do not remember any of those making it to Ukraine. It seems after the mailman finished his treat he would tape it up and send it on but this does not seem so. On the other hand I have sent quite a few letters without candy and I think all of them have made it alright.
I use the Cyrillic characters on the to address and add the city and Country in English under it. On the return address I use English and add the city and country in Cyrillic. I also send a self addressed stamped envelope for a reply. I get the stamps at http://users.net1plus.com/ryoung/OrderForm.htm
I have heard it is not necessary to address in cyrillic but I would rather be safe than sorry.
If you are sending important stuff like documents. I suggest DHL to Russia and Fed Ex to Ukraine. It is more expensive but very safe. I have used the postal system sending it registered mail. It takes forever but I never had a problem.
If you send items to Ukraine like CDs, clothing, etc you must declare the value. This can get pricey too.
I had a friend that sent a jacket he bought in South America to Ukraine DHL for a ladies birthday. They charged him $100 customs upon Ukrainian entry and then charged another $80 customs at the destination city and then they would not allow pick up of the item because he had use a virtual web site name for the address instead of the administrators name. They would not accept the passport of the website administrator as valid ID to pick up a package addressed to the website. The package was returned. After spending 240 dollars to send a jacket around the world and back he says he will never again use DHL