Mexico - The Only True Stereotype

Have you ever wondered how stereotypes getchances of it arriving are low to non-existent! For
started and which ones are true? Stereotypessome reason, surely known only to God, mail
about Mexico abound with most being silly tocoming into Mexico from America rarely-if
stupid. However, if I had to point to just one thatever-gets here.
was 100% totally and absolutely accurate, itMy experience has been that I am still waiting on
would be that everything you have ever heardfour letters from my bank that were mailed
about The Mexican Mail Service is true!more than 4 months ago. See what I mean?
My God in heaven, never has there been such aThe mail is so horrible that American businesses
hideously inefficient and unreliable mail service thanhave sprung up to combat this problem. It used
in Mexico. Certainly, nowhere else on earth canto be that expats got their mail "muled" to them
have anything approximating the horror youby others coming and going from America. If you
encounter when trying to send and receive mail inhad a letter or package to send, then someone
Mexico! Can there?going to America would carry it with them and
Here is what you are up against when sendingmail it inside the United States. The same was
mail to the United States from Mexico:true if you were going to receive something from
1) Never send a package of any sort containingAmerica. Someone coming back to Mexico would
anything and expect it to reach its destination.transport it for you-terribly slow and inefficient.
2) Never send a contract, a check, a moneyNow, there are services that work like this:
order, or anything of value to the U.S. via first"Some people use the services of MailBoxes, Etc.
class mail. NEVER!and for approximately $40. US per month, people
3) Expect that a regular first class mail letter willare given an address in the US to which their mail
reach the U.S. in about 2-3 weeks (but only if it isis delivered and it is then sent by the company to
predestined by God to get there).the lakeside area. This usually takes and extra
To be honest, you have a better chance ofday or two than regular US mail. For those who
success in sending a harmless and innocuous letterhave magazine subscriptions, foreign delivery is
via first class from Mexico to the U.S. than fromoften much more costly, so Mail Boxes, Etc. does
the U.S. to Mexico.work well for this. However, it has been noted
Here is what you are up against when sendingthat MailBoxes Etc. has a limit on the number of
mail to Mexico from America: hahahahahaha! Mail?items that can be received without extra charge
What's that?so that has to be checked if a person is
That is what I was told when I tried to sendinterested in this service."
some books from America to Mexico before weAnother great site is Access USA at This one
moved here. I was trying to send myself somelooks first-class and my wife and I are considering
books I thought I would need and the U.S. Postalusing it for our needs.
guy laughed and told me there was a less thanDon't try to figure this all out. You cannot--your
50% chance of success in sending a packagehead will explode--and you will never get an
from the U.S. to Mexico.answer as to why mail is so bad in Mexico. It is
He was right!one of those things you just have to accept.
If you have anything of value to receive fromGive up and adapt. Resistance is futile!
the U.S., do not send it via regular mail. The