Mailing train tickets???

What are the cities for those train tickets? Example Rome to Venice. And what website are you using to purchase tickets?

If you use TrenItalia.com you can purchase tickets on the high speed trains and you can print off the train ticket at home in a pdf file at the end of the checkout. no need to mail any tickets.

Are you purchasing group tickets? I purchased Group Tickets last year for a couple of routes and those were mailed to me in 2 weeks (but those were from DB Bahn for Germany not TrenItalia for Italy)

As Robert suggested, just print them out at home if purchased from Trenitalia or Italo.

We will be traveling from La Spezia to Rome and then onto Naples. No group, only two tickets. I was using the Trenitalia website.

Use the print-at-home ticket option.

Printing at home is really the quickest and safest way to have your tickets. And I always print a second copy just in case.

Also, most European railway web sites don't mail to the USA and I wouldn't want them to. The type of ticket that would be mailed is not replaceable if lost or delayed, unless they use a traceable shipping service which later fails to verify delivery. That's why US ticket agents use UPS or FedEx.

Purchase your tickets online, you will be asked for your email address, your tickets will be emailed to you within minutes. Print on 8.5x11 paper, good to go.

You've gotten the answer for Italy. But just as a note for future travels, if you can't print tickets at home, be very careful. As Laura says, mailing tickets from Europe to the US is not a good option (and is usually not available). Often you have to pick up tickets at a station or ticket office. That works fine if you are starting travel in the country you bought the tickets from (for example, Switzerland to France and you bought the tickets from Swiss Rail). But if you aren't in that country, you can be stuck (there won't be Swiss Rail ticket machines in France, so there's no way to pick up those Swiss Rail tickets before your trip).

The above Switzerland and France example, by the way, is just hypothetical; I don't know how those particular tickets work now (and what you can print at home and what must be picked up at a station keeps changing). But people have definitely had this kind of issue when buying tickets connecting two countries. Unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise, it's safest to buy from the country the trip originates in.

You can buy tickets for both Trenitalia and Italo Treno on the www.captaintrain.com website, at the same price as charged by the rail network websites. You can print these at home, so there's absolutely no need for cumbersome mailing of tickets.

Harold and others have a point about collecting your tickets outside the country whose rail system issues the tickets. This is where RailEurope is useful: I picked up French rail tickets at a RailEurope boutique in Brussels for a €10 fee, just walked in, showed the email confirmation, and they printed the tickets.

There's absolutely no need to use Rail Europe or "collect" tickets at local stations for use on trains in Italy. The website I listed earlier provides print-at-home tickets for both major rail networks in Italy. I've done that many times.

Ken, the RailEurope pickup was not at a local station, I suggested it as an emergency or last ditch alternative. Is there a better way to pick up French rail tickets when you are already in another country, and there is no printing option?

True, Italian tickets can be printed anywhere (I've done this at hotels, at home, at Western Union offices in Europe).