Private Mail Services
Private Mail Services
Aerocasillas (P.O. Box 4567-1000, San José, Costa Rica, Tel: 255-4567, Fax 257-1187),
Trans-Express "Interlink" (P.O. Box 02-5635, Miami, FL 33102, Tel: 296-3973/296-3974; Fax; 232-3979),
AAA Express Mail (Tel: 233-4993; Fax: 221-5056), Star Box (P.O. Box 405-1000, San José, Tel: 257-3443, Fax: 233-5624),
and Daily Mail (Tel: 233-4993; Fax: 221-5046), are a few of the mail companies which provide clients with a mail drop and P.O. Box in Miami, and a physical address where they can send or receive packages. This enables customers living in Costa Rica to have their mail sent to the Miami address where the companies forward the mail to Costa Rica.
Mail Boxes Etc. has 5 stores in costa rica.
They provide the same services as the companies above plus packing and shipping, office supplies, a photocopy center and much more.
These companies provide much faster service than the Costa Rican mail system to access mail order products from the U.S., to enable clients to subscribe to magazines and newspapers at U.S. domestic rates, to help obtain replacement parts from abroad and to order directly from mail order catalogs like Land's End, J.C. Penny and L.L. Bean. Large automobile parts may also be ordered from the U.S. You can pick up your correspondence directly from their offices or have your letters and packages picked up and delivered to your home or office at any time you decide. They will also get packages out of customs for you and save you a lot of headaches.
We have used one of these services for over four years and in general their service has been good. Because of the nature of our book business, we have an unusually high volume of incoming and outgoing mail. Our letters, books, packages, monies and other mail, reach their U.S. destinations almost as fast as if there were mailed from another city in the States. This reliable service makes doing business from Costa Rica very easy.
Most of the private mail companies offer Certified Mail, Registered Mail, Express Mail and FEDEX, UPS, DHL or other courier services.
Rates at any of these private mail services run from about $15.00 to $60.00 or more per month depending on the amount of mail you receive and whether you have a business or personal account.
Necessity Begets An
Inernational Mail Service
By Chuck Swett
Back in the good old days, the early sixties Jimn Fendell had been here 10 plus years (arrived with parents in 1951), and I was just getting over the caravan like, Pan-American Airways milk-run through Central America, things were a lot different here. The nearest beach, Puntarenas, was four hours away, via Cambronero, with fog so thick you had to ride on the hood of the car and guide the driver. You could go to the movies for a few colones, fill up a VW for almost nothing, and a popuplar priced a liter of milk cost a little over one colón. The train ride to Puntarenas was one big long party. And you could walk down any street in San José at any hour without ever considering yourself to be in danger.
But the one thing you wouldn't even consider doing , unless you really felt generous toward the customs officer population, was subscribe to National Geographic, The Saturday Evening Post or Life Magazine. Playboy would probably not even make it off the plane, much less through the postal system. The custom was to find out who was travelling and ask them to bring that car part or special shampoo or the latest Beatles album, when they came back.
As the country and the expatriate colony grew, communications media began to introduce new goodies and remind the foreigners of things they were accustomed to at home but couldn't easily get on the local market.
Our innovative friend Jim began to recognize the need for an alternative means of establishing and regaining that "link to home" that was missing. A reliable way to get peoples' important mail safely to its destination, and to allow them to enjoy a "taste of home" in their adopted country. That need finally took shape in Aerocasillas, twelve years ago.
Envisioned as becoming "The best personalized network for receiving and sending documents and mechandise between the rest of the world and our country," This way both national and international markets were opened to our clients.
Pioneering the field of private international mail service in this country, Aerocasillas has built a growing user base of 25,000 satisfied customers, with over 3,000 active accounts. This is the result of over twelve years of constant dedication to fulfilling the needs of our clients and seeking ways to improve on the service we provide.
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