awfulart
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Mail Service
Is there any mail service in the Mulege area ? We pay our bills via the internet but what about receiving magagzines and documents, probably a problem
but thought I would ask anyway
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Bob and Susan
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we got a po box in mulege...i think it was $12 a year
USA post office is about $48 a year for the cheapest
otherwise you get you mail "general delivery Mulege BCS" and they put it on the front counter for "everyone" to take a look at first before you get
there
there is some delivery in town but very little
[Edited on 3-31-2007 by Bob and Susan]
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awfulart
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bob and Susan
we got a po box in mulege...i think it was $12 a year
USA post office is about $48 a year for the cheapest
otherwise you get you mail "general delivery Mulege BCS" and they put it on the front counter for "everyone" to take a look at first before you get
there
there is some delivery in town but very little
[Edited on 3-31-2007 by Bob and Susan] |
Thank you,
A P.O. Box sounds like a good idea.
What is the time frame for mail from the U.S.?
What is the time frame of mail from the U. S.
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losfrailes
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Probably about two-three weeks if anything like the service in Santa Rosalia.
It does get here tho.
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Don Alley
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I just got a letter from Montana, Air Mail. Postmarked in Montana Feb. 28, arrived and postmarked in Loreto March 27. The wonders of flight! It would
have taken twice as long on horseback.
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vandenberg
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Don,
That's relatively fast. We routinely receive Christmas cards in February every year. We also have a box in Loreto and once in a while the postal
service will outdo itself and mail from central California will get here in 3 weeks. But don't hold your breath. Wonderful people working at our post
office though, and the sluggish mail definitely not their fault.
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Bruce R Leech
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art if you are in town you dont need the box just tell them where you are and they will deliver it to you 5 days a week.
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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bajamigo
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Vandenberg is right. We checked on the standard itinerary of a letter from the US to Punta Banda, and it was like reading "Around the World in Eighty
Days." It seems about the only place the letter doesn't visit for processing is Chiapas.
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Bob and Susan
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"I just got a letter from Montana, Air Mail"
EVERYTHING goes AIRMAIL!!! this is a NEW WORLD!!!
Remember FEDEX flys the postal service mail....and...
there are no regular flights on weekends
and...
if the FEDEX plane gets full of FEDEX the mail is pushed aside for later
it takes 28 days to get a regular letter from the states to Mulege...
If you want it FAST...
you NEED to use "Global Priorty" or "Express Mail"..
then...
it will depend on what you put on the customs declaration....
if it looks interesting or dangerous...customs get to examine it...
and....
if USA customs flags it then Mexico customs takes a look
each place can "hold" it as long as they like...
national security you know
Don Alley...maybe you're on the "list"
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awfulart
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Thank you everyone. Most interesting and not surprising.
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roundtuit
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Most of my mail going to a PO in Mulege has taken 3 weeks to forward from my post office in norte California
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Bob and Susan
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you're lucky to get any forwarded mail at all...it is going to another country!!!
remember the owner of the mail piece is NOT you...
it's ONLY yours when you open it!!!
it's the sender who put the postage on it ownes it and...
"they" have the "right" to get it back if it's not delivered to the address on the mail piece
that's why credit card companies get soooo rich late charges
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Anything over 16 ounces or any bulgy, bulky envelopes go to Mexico City to be scanned, opened, inspected, then rerouted. I personally don't think
they sit around very long in any one place, just the air rerouting takes time. My longest wait, 14 months.
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Lindalou
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Roundtuit, why has your avatar stopped dancing? Did he get tired
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Bob and Susan
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actually EVERYTHING from the states goes to Mexico City unless the city is REAL near...
also...
the post office DOES NOT open the mail it's the customs service
and not all mail is opened...only interesting stuff
the 14 month wait was probably for a check
that's the ONLY thing that ALWAYS gets lost
never a bill
and...
i'd bet you 10 to 1 there was something wrong with the address on the piece...location placement...zipcode, city vs. common name, etc
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awfulart
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| Quote: | Originally posted by RichnLinda
Roundtuit, why has your avatar stopped dancing? Did he get tired
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RichnLinda are you Rich & Linda or is Linda rich? If there are 2 of you
one of you shares my birthdate Nov. 25th
Where do you Full Time and what kind of Rig?
Awful Art
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Bruce R Leech
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my mail averages about 21 days from the US some times 14 and sometimes 28. but in 18 years they have never lost a thing.
Bruce R Leech
Ensenada
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shari
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Yesterday I received a christmas card from California...mail is unreliable and usually takes it a couple months but that's a first to receive a
chrismas card at easter! Ha! Also if someone sends a package...it gets held in Sta.Rosalia until we call the post office and ask them to deliver
it...so we need to know when someone sends a package so we can call there...hmmm
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Lindalou
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Art, I wish I was Linda's Rich but alas I am Not rich
We are Rich and Linda. My birthday is Nov. 25th. We are leasing some land and going to put a double wide on it this fall in Punta Banda and will
spend hopefully 6 months a year there. We spend several months a year in Oregon workamping at a resort called Howard Prairie outside of Asland where
it's cool most of the summer. we live in A Rexhall Airbus 35 foot with 2 slides. We have solors and an inverter so we can boondock whenever we want.
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One thing that used to slow down international mail (dont know if it is still an issue) is that if you put the 5 digit Mexican Codigo Postal on it
once it hits the us system it is read by a machine and first routed to the US city with that zip code until a person actually looks at it to see it is
foriegn then it goes on from there. My Cabo mail used to go to somewhere in Georga I think. I dont use the Postal system much for that reason but I
still keep my PO Box in case. Electronic is much easier, faster and reliable.
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