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Aventurera
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Mail to Baja
I sent some photos via Priority mail from Northern California to Ensenada. The lady at the post office said it would take about 6 days to arrive. It
has been 10 days. Any idea on how long things generally take to arrive down there?
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Aventurera
I sent some photos via Priority mail from Northern California to Ensenada. The lady at the post office said it would take about 6 days to arrive. It
has been 10 days. Any idea on how long things generally take to arrive down there? |
Welcome to Mexico ! I would say your mail will be here manana 
And welcome to the board.
CaboRon
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Bob and Susan
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last Priority Mail we mailed took 21 days
customs on BOTH sides holds it up
EXPRESS MAIL takes 10 days
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DENNIS
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It takes three weeks for the Mexican phone bills to go from TJ to Punta Banda. Postmarked with date in Tijuana, Ensenada, Maneadero, Punta Banda.
I havn't been in a Mexican post office for a while but, the last time I was, you had to put glue on the stamp yourself. I don't know if that has
changed. The postal service here has improved a lot recently but, don't look for US efficiency yet. Maybe maņana.
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CaboRon
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I just wanted to add, that for photos, I would send them as an e-mail attachment, then you could print them or watch them on your computer, or
burn a cd or dvd with the pics, and you can also take them to a shop and have them print the copies for you.
CaboRon
[Edited on 2-2-2008 by CaboRon]
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bajabound2005
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We received a Christmas card for the former owners of our house (they've never received mail at their house). It was mailed from SoCal, regular
postage (41 cents) to their name, Rancho Packard, Carratera La Bufadora KM 17.5, Punta Banda, Baja Calif., Mexico
Wrong postage, no postal code, mail not even delivered to our camp....came right to our house and it took about 2 weeks. Go figure.
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backninedan
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We average about two weeks for stateside mail to reach our PO box. It doesn't seem to make much difference how it is sent.
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DianaT
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Mail going both ways is fun! We send my mother-in-law 3 or 4 letters at the same time from Vizcaino (no post office in Bahia Asuncion) and they all
arrive at different times. And last time we were in that post office, they were out of the proper stamps---paid and left the letters and they were
sent. 
From the states, even our FedEx package to La Paz went through Guadalajara.
The lady who told you 6 days, well ----
The better answer would have been, who knows.
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MrBillM
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Quien Sabe ?
Although I've never attempted Priority mail or the like, I've had a Mexican P.O. Box for 20 Years in San Felipe. Periodically, I would send "Test"
letters to myself. They would clear the U.S. post office in one day, postmarked about 2-3 days later in Mexicali and show up in San Felipe anywhere
from 5-6 days to 5-6 weeks. Then there were those that NEVER arrived. It was the "Never" letters that convinced me to not have serious mail sent
there. The boxes are cheap, though. In the U.S., I'm paying almost 90 bucks a year for one.
Things have probably improved, but years back the Campo owners had a Box in Calexico for important stuff. Since someone was always travelling to
Mexicali weekly, they would cross the border to pick up their serious mail.
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sylens
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we have found in general (no hard and fast rules, this is, after all, the mexico we love) that first class mail (41 cents) sent from california
arrives at our house in ensenada in just under two weeks. with additional postage or sent from anywhere else (the other 49 states, canada, england)
it takes a minimum of three weeks, because it is routed to mexico city and then to ensenada.
forget packages. customs issues delay everything.
we get our christmas cards in mid to late january every year
lili
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Aventurera
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Well, thanks everybody for the info. I guess we just have to wait patiently (or not so patiently)! Unfortunately, he doesn't have e-mail, so that is
not an option.
I guess that in these days of instant communication, it's not such a bad thing to be reminded of the days when people waited excitedly for the arrival
of a letter in the mail...
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by MrBillM
Things have probably improved, but years back the Campo owners had a Box in Calexico for important stuff. Since someone was always travelling to
Mexicali weekly, they would cross the border to pick up their serious mail. |
Don't think much has changed---as the Post Master told us, he needed more help but he could not convince the higher ups that the Calexico Post Office
was really a sub-station for Mexicali.
We used to laugh at the signs that said anyone who had a P.O. Box needed to prove residency----everyone had a relative or friend. Almost all of the
cars in the parking lot had Baja plates.
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Mango
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My favorite Mexican mail story:
I met an Austrian the first time I went to Mexico. He told me about a postcard that he had sent home on his first trip to Mexico. The post card
arrived about 4 years later with postmarks on it from: Australia, Albania, Algeria, and about 3 other countries that started with the letter "A".
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Hook
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This begs the question: just what do mexican postal workers DO all day long?
Hoping for some clever responses like...........
ANYTHING they want.
errands for the cartels using postal vehicles.
grande siestas.
watching telenovia and I Love Lucy re-runs.
Any other theories?
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vandenberg
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Hook
This begs the question: just what do mexican postal workers DO all day long?
Hoping for some clever responses like...........
ANYTHING they want.
errands for the cartels using postal vehicles.
grande siestas.
watching telenovia and I Love Lucy re-runs.
Any other theories? |
About the same as US postal workers, except they don't bring guns to work to kill each other 
And btw. we get most of our mail from Ca. now in about 2 to 3 weeks, far cry from a few years ago, when it took 2 to 3 months.
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bajalera
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Watching that Fashion Channel?
\"Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest never happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.\" -
Mark Twain
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george
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Mail to Baja
We have been coming to the Baja for over 20 years. We have found that any mail that is sent down to us arrives
usually within 8 days IF you put on the label "Via Tijuana" and highlight it so it stands out. If you don't do that it goes to the Mainland first and
then back to Tijuana and can take
as long as a month to get to us.
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Al G
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| Quote: | Originally posted by george
We have been coming to the Baja for over 20 years. We have found that any mail that is sent down to us arrives
usually within 8 days IF you put on the label "Via Tijuana" and highlight it so it stands out. If you don't do that it goes to the Mainland first and
then back to Tijuana and can take
as long as a month to get to us. |
Hi george...silly question...who has these labels or do you makeup your own?
Albert G
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Sallysouth
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Mija has her mail sent to a box in SY and they send it on down to her in Cabo.Not sure how it works but it takes about ten days to get to her.We get
her mail here in So. Cal. and put it all in a Priority Mail (large) envelope, then send it to SY.Interesting tidbit about the "Via Tijuana" thing.
Happiness is just a Baja memory away...
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bajabound2005
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I swear I read a while back that the Mexican Postal Service had contracted with the US Postal Service to help them "improve". It is fun to look at
all the postmarks on the Telnor bill. TJ, Ensenada, Maneadero, Punta Banda...well, there's one quick improvement: One postmark from the city it's
mailed from and it's on its way. Well, I know those photos didn't arrive today because it looks like everyone took tomorrow's holiday (Constitution
Day) today for a 3 day weekend.
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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