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Is there any recourse! We ride our bikes from Playa Chiquita to Puerto Viejo twice a week to look for our mail, it’s quite a ride, when we get to the Post Office the attendent always says no mail! I went there today and received mail that was dated in PV in December! Is there a complaints department, this is a public servant am I correct?
I have heard complaints about the Costa Rican postal service but I must tell you that I have mailed tens of thousands of books all over the world and we have lost a total of 7 books.
I think they’re great and incredibly cheap …
Have you asked for the manager of the Post Office? Please note that they won’t go “postal” on you here but they may look at you funny…
Scott Oliver – Founder
WeLoveCostaRica.comFor some things, we use our “descriptive” Costa Rican address. As needed, our mailman delivers it to our door. You might try that.
Hi Janice, The Costa Rican post office speediness or lack there of has actually come a long way in the last few decades (it used to take about a month to get a simple letter from the US to the central San Jose office in the 80s and to Limon it seemed like an eternity), but it’s still very slow in general. Even today, when mail arrives in SJ in within 10 days, you need to add to this that it still needs to sent to Limon City(Limon, what some call the forgotten province of CR) and then further on down to Puerto Viejo so please consider that they may not be giving you your December mail, because they did not have it in their hands prior to that. The area you’re in is one of my very favorite places in the whole world and I just came from a too short of a visit there. Enjoy the laid back atmosphere of this absolutely ENCHANTING place and thank your lucky stars that we now have Internet for communication so that you can always be in touch with your loved ones via this communication medium. Pura Vida…and when you wake to the call of the birds and howler monkeys, please give them my regards and tell them I miss them so very much…
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