Mail Delivery in Baja California Sur

Question

I don't know what got me to thinking about this topic this morning but I did. So here it is. In the USA we have a quasi-governmental agency named the US Postal Service which delivers mail to our houses six days a week. Most of which is junk mail; advertisements, unsolicited offers, etc. But the USPS also delivers our bills and packages.

Here in Mexico there is a government agency called Correo Mexico that is the USPS equivalent. The average Mexican home receives zero junk mail from the Correo. Personal letters and packages are delivered to your home but most homes don't have mailboxes so it is left on the doorstep or wedged into the door. Your bills do not arrive via Correo. Each company has its own couriers that travel around delivering your water, electric, telephone, credit card and other bills. The only junk mail is circulated in the same manner as your daily newspaper in the USA (tossed onto your front yard or stuffed in the door).

Mail is not picked up from your home, to mail a letter you must go the the post office or find one of the infrequent mailboxes to drop it into.

I for one prefer the system here in Mexico. Being free of all the junk mail is fantastic.

If you live somewhere else, please tell us how mail is done in your country.

Take care, GGring, I could be tempted to say quite a lot on this, havingg lived in several countries.. - annierats, Jul 18, 2012

The double gg's are due to the computer, I don't have hiccups at this moment, it just does them. - annierats, Jul 18, 2012

Great post gringo! I think junk mail should be against the law everywhere! - 0095ca4c, Jul 18, 2012

Hola amigo, I hate mail, anything to make it easier would be great to me! - pmikan-pam, Jul 18, 2012

Answer 1

Cuando vivía en España por algunos meses me gustaba la sistema de correos: fue necesario recoger el correo de la oficina de correos en pueblo, de una caja. No existe ninguna entrega de correos si viviera en el campo.Un método excelente.

When I lived in Spain for a few months , I loved the postal system: It was necessary to fetch the post from a box in the post-office in town, there was no delivery to country dwellers. An excellent system.

You reminded me to add something to my post. Thanks. - gringojrf, Jul 18, 2012

Once you're used to it, there is only the odd bill once in a while, no adverts, no nothing.. - annierats, Jul 18, 2012

Hola Annie! Sounds perfect to me. - pmikan-pam, Jul 18, 2012

Answer 2

Where I live in Guatemala there are no street names or numbers...You live in a village with a Mayan name and everyone knows where you live.

I have to visit the post office, which is about a half hour away by boat, to send anything, and I have a post office box in the "correos." However, I don't get much of what people send me from the U.S. As for this alleged "government system," about 60% of my mail gets to the recipient in the U.S., but only 40% of the packages will arrive. A letter takes about three weeks to arrive in my post office box.

Consequently, I've used Fedex and DHL, which is very expensive ($100-$200) but my important stuff arrived unmolested and in three days!

And you seem to have the internet.. - annierats, Jul 19, 2012

And no junk mail. What a relief. - gringojrf, Jul 19, 2012