is the Chilean mail service 100% reliable? ie if I post a parcel (just of second hand books - nothing of value) from out of Chile to an address within Chile (in Puerto Montt) is there any chance it will be tampered with/stolen etc?
Any experiences in this area gratefully received.
thanks for all help.
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pmj4n
all the packages sent from my family in the us to my address here in chile have come.......none lost or anything...and not tampered with either. it's taken about 2-3 weeks, and we have used regular us mail. be sure to include the region when writing the address on the package. i was told to use regular mail service (not fed ex, DHL, etc.)...not really sure of the reason.
good luck!
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vnrose
I have received everything that has been sent. A couple of times things went to the 'aduana' rather than the house and I had to go down and pay some obscure fee for getting them. This seems to be arbitrary and random. If you have a business address to post them to it always seems to work better and not too big a package. It's even worth posting several smaller ones if it is a lot of books. Try to keep each package around 2-3 kilos max.
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