blz
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Is there mail service in Baja?
We are just beginning to look into a trip to Baja later this year. If we can do it, we want to stay a couple of months. What do travelers do about
getting their mail?
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durrelllrobert
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Unless you have a private mail service all Baja mail goes to mexico city first and mail from or to the states can take a week or more to arrive.
Bob Durrell
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woody with a view
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if you are in one place you would have it sent genral delivery to the post office/western union or similar and hope they would find it.
better to shrug off those chains that keep you tethered to the world and just do without.
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latina
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I sent an envelope to Vancouver the 1st of December, priority post from the La Paz post office....it still hasn't arrived....from the tracking number
I saw that it left that day for international mail....where it is, who knows?
On December 31st a Florida company sent me a package through Fedex...I finally tracked it down (no small feat) 4 weeks later! The next day Fedex
delivered another package to my house that was sent from Florida 3 days earlier....go figure.....
I suggest you get bills paid online, get online statements, prepay what you can and if it is something of an urgent nature use UPS...You can put a
vacation hold on your mail at your local post office.
If you do that you will probably find that most of the "mail" you have waiting for you is from charities seeking donations...
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chuckie
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The answer is "sort of"...
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blz
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Thanks for the replies. Here's more info about us. We live fulltime in our RV so already have a mail forwarding service that sends our mail to where
ever we tell them. It sounds like maybe they could send it to Baja via UPS? Did I understand that correctly?
It also sounds like mailing out of Baja is problematic. Sounds like I'll have to get really organized and get renewals done and, as one poster
suggested, prepay as much as we can before we leave.
Thanks for the help!
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roundtuit
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mail to Mexico
I have been forwarding my mail service that the USPO will provide to people living for in Mexico for less than 6 months . I live in Mulege and have
apdo box at the post office for the last 8 yrs. Mail is slow usually 3 weeks late, only first class. PO Box 300 pesos per year.
Never learned from a book-Only from mistakes, mine and yours
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captkw
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mail..................
Hola,,,you would find it best to send thru the cruisers at marina de La paz...or someone flying/driving north..IMO..and BTW in the land of the fee
(usa) they don't call them mail men any more !! more like "The bill man"......
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bajabuddha
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If you're going for two months, and if you mail anything to the U.S. the first day you arrive in Baja, I can guarantee you that you will be home
before it gets there.
Used to be Casa de Correo until email. Used to be slow. Now, almost non-existent. No, there is no UPS or Fed-Ex in Baja, or any other primary
delivery sources. IF you know someone stateside who knows someone travelling to Baja who knows how to get your stuff to them, then you have postal.
Here, IF you know someone who knows someone going north, there are 'mailbags' that are carried north and deposited in a Stateside P.O. Box whenever
that person gets to one.
Meds? Fill up what you need before you come down. Two months? Easy-peasy. You can get BP meds and non-heavy-scheduled meds here, some easier
than others, but pain meds etc., forget it.
Two months? You got three on the 'grace period' on your bills. Plan ahead a little, live OFF THE GRID.......... it's fun! That's why all these
crazy gringos here WERE here in the first place. (Mein Gott in Himmel.... how did ve effer survife?) You'll find more internet access here than you
think; i'm amazed at the jump in the last 5-8 years. Remember, simple utility bills you can pay in advance and have a reserve balance.
Look on the bright side: stamps taste terrrrrrrible!
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
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Mula
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Actually there is a big FEDEX depot in La Paz and a friend in Lopez Mateos recently had his credit cards delivered to him in Lopez. . . abet took a
month or more. . . but he did get them.
This is also DHL in LaPaz, too.
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