Correos service improving!

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Things are looking up! A small package posted in the UK on Thursday arrived here on Tuesday and a letter posted on Saturday arrived here today, Wednesday. 
Let's hope it lasts - perhaps there is a new Postie in Madrid!

[sandybbfan]

How long does it normally take for post to be delivered? I have just taken a post office box in Caleta and my daughter is sending some documents..

[peggy]

When i have sent cards etc. from the UK to Corrie they usually take 10-14 days to get there.

[sandybbfan]

Thats a long time Peggy  x

[dee-dee]

We posted postcards to back home this July..and they took 3 weeks to arrive 

[kezw17]

I posted a birthday card in Antigua post office on a wednesday and it arrived in the UK just a couple of days later on the saturday morning....!!
kez

[falkirkdan]

We posted postcards to back home this July..and they took 3 weeks to arrive 

Stopped sending post cards a long time ago as it eats into my lying in the sun time.   Had resorted to taking preprinted address lables towards the end.
Or is it that I am just an old meanie???

[Carlo]

Had several items posted from the UK 'go missing' and not turn up, birthday cards, eBay items etc. Recently got a mate in the UK to post me a brand new t-shirt. Got him to post it 'International Signed For' and told him to put 'used clothes' and the value as £0.00 on the customs label. Low and behold, a few days after he sent it, I got a card in my letter box and picked it up in the correos without a problem.

What I do know is that Woodside are now offering a service for getting small items sent here as I recently asked Annette about it. Here's what she had to say -

"We now have a storage area in Gloucester (Big Yellow Storage Company) where small items can be sent to for despatch to the Canary Islands (hand-held items only).  Jim collects on a monthly basis and brings over to Fuerte and Lanzarote.

So, in a nut-shell the items don't go missing or 'snarled up' in Customs... the transport/paperwork price offered is the price the Client pays (then we charge import tax at 7% of the declared value of the items). Simple!!"

Sounds like a good idea and may well be worth considering!

http://www.woodsidecargosl.com/

Woodside email -  info@woodsidecargosl.com

[Globetrotter]

How long does it normally take for post to be delivered? I have just taken a post office box in Caleta and my daughter is sending some documents..

We posted some Spanish Christmas cards to friends when we were there a few years ago just before the 25th December, they arrived quite promptly, in March.

[peggy]

We have posted cards at the main office in Corrie while on 3 week holiday and been home back in the UK before them!!!

[Carlo]

Received in the post today an item I ordered off eBay over 6 months ago!!

Edit: Just to clarify, it was actually dispatched over 6 months ago. Christ knows where it's been all this time 

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Re: Correos service improving!
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2012, 22:19:55 pm »

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We posted postcards to back home this July..and they took 3 weeks to arrive 

To be perfectly honest,we have posted postcards to home(UK)whilst on holiday and they got there BEFORE we arrived back home ? We stay in Caleta and the store right on the corner just past the Hyperdino has a yellow box to post things in and it seems that its emptied regularly which isn't to be said for a few other sites....
Just a thought..............