What do you guys that live full time in La Paz do about getting mail from stateside.?
Here in San Felipe I have a regular mail forwarding service that picks it up at a PO box in Calexico and brings it to San Felipe.
Years ago at La Paz we just used to give it to a Motor-homer heading north or leave it at the yacht club for out going and do with out for incoming.
We would like to spend 3 months there with out having to come to the states.Bruce R Leech - 2-4-2006 at 07:17 PM
we use the Mexican post office it works good and it is cheaper.
in 17 years they have not lost a thing. that is a better record than I have with the US postal service.
[Edited on 2-5-2006 by Bruce R Leech]vandenberg - 2-4-2006 at 07:48 PM
We're having good luck with our postal service here in Loreto. " Little slow ",but it 'll get here. Just received a x mas card that was posted in
Sacramento Dec 16th.turtleandtoad - 2-4-2006 at 09:17 PM
Since I'm on the road all the time, I use a mail forwarding service in the US that sends my mail whenever I ask. They use my Fedex account and usually
I have them mark it "hold for pickup" at whatever FedEx distribution station is the closest. Mexico postal service is too slow for me, I'd have mail
strewn all across the peninsula.
In La Paz it's at the airport. The others in Baja are Cabo and Ensenada. The La Paz center sends a truck to Loreto, Mulege and other outlaying areas.
In Cabo, I have the package delivered directly to the Vagabundo RV park. It's a daily stop for the truck. The park holds it for me until I get there
if I'm still on the road.
Other package companies may have better coverage, I'm sure one of them has flights into Loreto, seen the aircraft but can't remember which one it was.
I use FedEx only because I had the account when I retired.mcgyver - 2-4-2006 at 10:49 PM
Thanks for the answers! I have tried the Mexican PO in the past and yes its a little to slow for me. I was not aware that FedEx serviced Baja.
I had the SKP'S as my mail forwarders for years but the best receiver I ever had in Mexico was a little old lady in La Buffadora who went once a
week to Chula Vista and picked up your mail, you had it sent to one mans address and she charged you 20 dollars a trip. I am sure some of the old
timers know who I am talking about. it was quite unofficial and she never declared any packages and as far as I know never got stopped. I was living
on one of the Meling ranches just north of San Telmo at the time and she would put my package on the bus and I would get it as freight at Ruben
Jaramillo. Worked great! Sometimes I got it in 4hours!
My present mail receiver has a courier service bring mail from Calexico to San Felipe and they declare everything at the border and Mexican customs
opens everything and charges a flat 30% of their appraised or invoice value. Or so says the mail forwarding people, therefore some items you do not
want coming this way. And do not lecture me about cheating Mexico out of its fair share, they close their eyes to much more value coming across that
border than I will ever bring!Bob and Susan - 2-5-2006 at 05:35 AM
We use the Postal Service....USA and Mexico
It is slower but stuff arrives.
I just Expressed a package down to Mulege with no problems.bajalou - 2-5-2006 at 08:19 AM
Well, Max, I saw a DHL truck pass me between my place and San Felipe yesterday. Not the first time I've seen them here so that might be a way to go.
Also several of us have mail service in Calexico that receives USPS, UPS etc for us and holds it there. The cost is $25 a year but we have to pick
it up and do our own deal with customs. Someone is usually going every week or two so that works out OK for us. All bills are handled online so
rarely have anything but what I buy on Ebay to be ancious about.
mcgyver - 2-5-2006 at 10:31 AM
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Originally posted by bajalou
Well, Max, I saw a DHL truck pass me between my place and San Felipe yesterday.
Lou, I knew DHL was world wide but I did not know they serviced San Felipe. They have just recently bought out FedEx, in Yuma they are slowly changing
all the Fedex signs and the terminal to DHL, they are huge in Europe.
Is the mail receiving place in Calexico called "Gastelums"???
Bob and Susan, Maybe the Mexican mail has improved since I last tried it in 1993, I tried using my Mexican friends PO Box, no luck, tried using
general delivery, got my own box and none of those you could depend on within a 30 day delivery period.
As lou does I have all bills on auto pay but there are some things that just have to be handled by mail.
I do not exclude the US Post Office from incompetency either!! Last year they managed to cancel my temporary forwarding order so the carrier seeing
that my box was taped shut just stored all my mail at the PO! This caused me to make an extra trip to Yuma were I found it stored. Refiled another
Temporary forwarding order which someone in the PO made permanent the first week resulting in all my insurance being canceled because they all thought
I had moved to California leaving no notice. I then got a neighbor to forward it to me, this worked well for 3 weeks until another neighbor made me an
offer for the place that I could not refuse so I sold out and got another mail receiver in Yuma who forwards it to Calexico and then Sunrunner brings
it to San Felipe. But don't try this with a package, Gastelums, who receives packages for Sunrunner also receives for thousands of other people, they
have 3000 packages on hand, one of mine with my new cpap machine is among those that they did not receive, so now I will probably have to pay $518 for
something I will never receive and I am still without a machine.
I will definitely do a test shipment with DHL to some place in San Felipe.bajalou - 2-5-2006 at 10:49 AM
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Is the mail receiving place in Calexico called "Gastelums"???
No can't think of the name right now, but it's at 103 E 3rd. Very small place. Have had the service for 11+ years. the guy has moved three times
but all within a easy walk from the border. The 3rd time I came for mail he saw me walking down the street and had it on the counter when I walked
in. Took Wornout with me once and the next time wornout walked in he had my mail on the counter - amazing.mcgyver - 2-5-2006 at 11:11 AM
OK Lou, Its called Correo International at 103 E 3rd. Tele# (760)-357-8180.
There are 10 mail receiving places lsted in Calexico alone! That equals about 60,000 customers if they average what the two I know about does.
Still doesn't get packages to La Paz. I will probably sign up there next year when the one I have now runs out.
The trouble is that no one will handle your business like you would!
