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A friend and I are planning to walk the Lofoten Long Crossing in 2026.  I was hoping to be able to post a dehydrated food resupply parcel for collection at the approx half way point.  Has anyone any experience of this?  Do the post offices offer a Post Restante service for example?

https://www.posten.no/sende/adressering

There is post restante...but parcels from the UK are sometimes really slow to arrive here (possibly customs awkwardness) and it doesn't say how long they will hang on to them, for normal delivery it's 3 weeks, so a bit awkward to say how far ahead you should post it but I guess you could send it early and make it clear on the label when you expect to collect it. The route seems to pass a lot of shops and it's fairly common here for normal supermarket to stock dehydrated camping meals so for me the post restante faff would be too much

I used Poste Restante in Norway last summer, I ordered from within EU to try and avoid as much customs problems as possible but it still got stuck with me needing to register for a customs ID number. It didn't cost anything but delayed my journey by a couple days. In future I'm going to order from within Norway to avoid any issues as have done in the past without problem.

The route looks like it goes through Leknes about half way which has a good selection of shops including an outdoor shop. So posting food in advance shouldn't be necessary.

https://www.toll.no/en/corporate/import/how-to-apply-for-a-trk---customs-id... 

Might it be relevant that Norway isn’t part of the Customs Union