Comments on: Moving to Argentina: Argentinian Mailboxes http://argentinastravel.com/3886/argentinian-mailboxes/ Your Online Guidebook to Argentina Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:04:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dan http://argentinastravel.com/3886/argentinian-mailboxes/comment-page-1/#comment-42174 Dan Fri, 15 May 2009 16:48:25 +0000 http://argentinastravel.com/?p=3886#comment-42174 Hmmm, let's see, $2.40 pesos, or about 75 cents, to mail an international airmail postcard and that's expensive? In the U.S. it's 98 cents for the same. And while one might think that it ought to be cheaper because living in Argentina is cheaper in general, keep in mind that international air service costs are the same regardless of the economy on the sending end. I'd also disagree on the fedex/dhl stuff - in four years of packages only one was detained and that was because it contained medication that they wanted a copy of the prescription for before allowing it in. Everything else passed right through and has been delivered direct to the house. If you send a package larger than about the size of a large book via the postal system it will almost always be held at the Correo Central down by Retiro and will require 2-3 hours of your time to retrieve it. Hmmm, let’s see, $2.40 pesos, or about 75 cents, to mail an international airmail postcard and that’s expensive? In the U.S. it’s 98 cents for the same. And while one might think that it ought to be cheaper because living in Argentina is cheaper in general, keep in mind that international air service costs are the same regardless of the economy on the sending end.

I’d also disagree on the fedex/dhl stuff – in four years of packages only one was detained and that was because it contained medication that they wanted a copy of the prescription for before allowing it in. Everything else passed right through and has been delivered direct to the house. If you send a package larger than about the size of a large book via the postal system it will almost always be held at the Correo Central down by Retiro and will require 2-3 hours of your time to retrieve it.

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