Thanks, but the China mail tracking ref # isn't recognised on the UK Royal mail tracker - doesn't really surprise me :-) My 'local' post office (I live in a city centre, so there is no one local office that would always deal with my mail) would not even speak to me if I couldn't give them a Royal Mail registered parcel ref # they recognise - I don't have one (and I don't know if one ecen existed, I have no info on who the local carrier was). As the Chinese tracker does state that final delivery was made, clearly their local agent HAS delivered it to somebody, just not me :-(