The Idiocy Of Correo Argentino!

[thorsten]

Spending half a day for two birthday cards that are 1/4 year late - that really sucks. On the other hand, if there is a slight chance that its a dozen of Krispy Kreme donuts, I'd have waited too

 

[johnw100]

I feel for you, we at least received our christmas cards direct to our house, just a shame they arrived in f**king March!!!!!

 

[goodboyjakey]

A friend has just sent me 3 books so i guess I can kiss them goodbye.

 

[Gringoboy]

Reminds me of doing vehicle police verification *insert joke here* in provincia.
Peronism at its very finest.

 

[ben]

Question - why does La Nacion or Clarin not run a story on this? Other papers too, for that matter, but those 2 certainly ought to, one would think.

 

[CarryOn]

A friend has just sent me 3 books so i guess I can kiss them goodbye.

No, no, no, you'll get them. 6-8 months from now.

 

[mariano-BCN]

I went the other day to the Correos in order to send a letter with stuff my daughter'd forgotten when she was here. It was a carta certificada.
The guy read the destination ... "Holanda....no esta en la lista" - "Holland is not on the list of destinations"
"Proba Paises bajos -Try The Netherlands", I said.
"No, that must be another country, you can't send this letter".
WTF!

I asked another Correo-guy, he knew it's the same country.
Sometimes you find here unbelievable signs of ignorance.

 

[prettejohn]

Funnily enough in the last two days we've received 4 paper notifications for parcels which we went down to the local post office to collect and we had to pay $40 peso per parcel. I think they've ve given up on the insanely inefficient system of expecting everyone to go to Retiro.

So my children have at last been able to open their birthday presents from their grandparents 5 months later. A quality service for only $40 per parcel..

 

[Gringoboy]

I was taken aback the other day when I was asked to present my DNI to send a small parcel to someone in Bahia Blanca.
I then went back to the same post office (because I'm a masochist) to send a parcel to Salta, intentionally didn't show my DNI and was never asked for it.
See what I mean?

 

[Chet]

Wait a minute, you have to have a DNI to mail a package? What the heck, how are tourists supposed to mail junk home?