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Ron_Perry
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Sending/Receiving mail in Baja
Hi everyone, I am planning a 6 or 8 week camping trip to the East Cape/Pacific side in about a month. Can anyone suggest how I send and receive mail
around the San Jose Cabo area.
I am looking for a reliable source...and...any guesses what kind of time frame for mail to the SF Bay Area? And back? What about cost for a
regular envelope? ANY HELP would be great. Thanks, Ron
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bajajudy
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We use these people
http://bajainsider.com/baja-business/profiles/business-servi...
Our mail goes to San Ysidro and comes down by truck....takes about a week depending on when it gets there.
To mail a regular envelope it costs $2.50
I have no idea if you have to have an account with them to do this.
You cannot have any merchandise sent to this service. They will mail it out for you.
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Bob and Susan
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ron...there is NO "reliable" mail service here
the world is changing to email and attachments
EVERYONE is using computers
mail volume is dropping drasticly
most "hard copies" are just not needed anymore
while you are camping for 8 weeks...you should forget about your mail
and make other arrangements
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Wally
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We use MBE as well and it's very reliable. But personally I wouldn't go through the hassle of opening an account with them if you are only going to be
here 8 weeks. While it's almost always less, you have to figure that USPS to San Ysidro and then the truck down and stuff can add up to 2 weeks. By
the time you are setup and sorted out you are out of here. Who knows how much of your stuff will fall into the twilight zone.
If you are looking to get a few things sent down, I'd suggest DHL to the DHL office in San Jose is a better way to go. They'll hold for pick up. Their
office is in the Super Ley/Amerimed/movie theater plaza down from Walmart.
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Alm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ron_Perry
Hi everyone, I am planning a 6 or 8 week camping trip to the East Cape/Pacific side in about a month. Can anyone suggest how I send and receive mail
around the San Jose Cabo area. |
The cost of regular envelope is negligible, but it might easily take a few weeks for a regular mail to reach Cabo. Other than postcards with Cabo
views, only important documents are being forwarded by mail these days, and those are better be send by courier service like DHL. If this is not
anything too important, I'll join the others here and suggest you just forget about mail for a month. Are you a glutton for punishment? I hate even
checking my email when on vacation.
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Bob and Susan
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Wally
We use MBE as well and it's very reliable. . |
never assume MBE or any other mailbox place is reliable
this is like giving you mail to a neighbor
some are ok others are not
and there is NO forwarding later when the store closes
be careful when using private mail companies
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bajalorena
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If you were going to be in the Los Barriles area, you could use www.aeroburro.net
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bajajudy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
| Quote: | Originally posted by Wally
We use MBE as well and it's very reliable. . |
never assume MBE or any other mailbox place is reliable
this is like giving you mail to a neighbor
some are ok others are not
and there is NO forwarding later when the store closes
be careful when using private mail companies |
Sorry but I have to stick up for MBE about which b and s know nothing.
We have been using them for over 5 years.
That said...we did get burned good by some guy from La Paz who started a mail service and then went out of business with our money. He was not in any
way associated with MBE
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bajaguy
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Scan and e-mail
Have a friend pick up your mail, scan the important stuff and e-mail it to you. Check your e-mails every couple of days from an internet
cafe........you can even buy your friend a scanner, they don't cost much these days.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
never assume MBE or any other mailbox place is reliable
this is like giving you mail to a neighbor
some are ok others are not
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Reminds me of a story. OK...gotta minute? Good.
Maybe fifteen years ago, the first Postal Annex franchise in San Ysidro was opened by a working border patrol agent as a means to subsidize his
income. He thought he had time to do both.
Well....it became just a bit more of a time requirement than he bargained for and after a while and numerous complaints to postal inspectors about
undelivered mail, the authorities took over the business.
They went to his house and found a lot of boxes of undelivered mail....so much that they had to rent around a bunch of picnic tables which they set up
in the parking lot with all the excess mail organized for pickup by the qualified owner.
It just got the best of the agent and he didn't know how to deal with it.
Soooo....like Bob says, ya never know what you're dealing with.
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bajaguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
......a means to subsidize his income.......
Subsidize or supplement?????  |
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Pompano
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*Sending and Receiving Snail Mail in Baja Sur, Mexico
..In1981 Mulege
I once sent a letter from the Mulege post office to a beautiful and adventurous young lady whom I had met in Alaska the previous summer. We became
good friends and she had given me her mother's address in Vista, Ca as a way to stay in contact with her.
..In 1984 Mulege
I received a short reply from my friend's mother in Vista...saying, Dear Roger, XXXX is doing very well and has been happily married since 1982 with a
one-yr-old girl. Best of luck, XXXX's Mom
*Smoke signals or the coconut telegraph would get your message across much quicker.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bajaguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
......a means to subsidize his income.......
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Subsidize or supplement????? |
I don't know. One or the other. He's probably a wealthy man by now anyway.
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laventana
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bump, for someone who may search for this answer someday.
Yes there is a very reliable company called postall they have address in SanYsidro and they walk it across every other day and send safely via their
locked boxes. I send important things all the time. Credit cards and so on no problem.
http://www.nox.com.mx
fjmoncada@nox.com.mx
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SFandH
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| Quote: | Originally posted by laventana
bump, for someone who may search for this answer someday.
Yes there is a very reliable company called postall they have address in SanYsidro and they walk it across every other day and send safely via their
locked boxes. I send important things all the time. Credit cards and so on no problem.
http://www.nox.com.mx
fjmoncada@nox.com.mx |
Do they have an office in San Ysidro? If so, what's the address?
Thanks
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BajaBlanca
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If you open up the website and click on OFICINAS, it gives their address and a map, as well as email address and phone numbers.
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chuckie
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Pompano: If the Alaskan woman had a long blond pigtail, wore snapfront shirts, carried a Smith and Wesson Model 29 in a shoulder holster and chewed
Copenhagen....I know her well.....
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laventana
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correct the website has details. I had thought they also had an office in San Jose Todos too, contact the email address I posted.
They also take the items back to the border and walk them across. regular mail that is stamped heading north is free. So are letters coming down.
We do pay for sending packages but it is very reasonable. I just send a package this way that I had then drop it in the mail express mail sent
to China for a project I am working on.
What we do, is you are allowed 3 different people per box to split the yearly fee. Thus each person pays about $70.00 a year. I had a mail boxes
whatever years ago that was $20.00 a month in the usa not for sending here. Post an ad looking to join a box where you box ends up..
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Gerald
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U2U about camping
Ron
I sent you a U2U about your camping trip. Its going to be a great trip.
Gerald
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Alm
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| Quote: | Originally posted by laventana
I just send a package this way that I had then drop it in the mail express mail sent to China for a project I am working on.
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I hope this "project" is not a bridge, no? Just kidding, They will come anyway, bridge or no bridge.
Link for Postall: http://www.postall.com.mx/index.php
Nox is probably a different company.
No personal experience with either one.
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