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[Ben Round de Bloc]

Here every November 12th I get an envelope left in my mailbox with the following stamped on it.
___________________________
Para el Sr. o Sra. de la Casa
DEVUELVASE AL CARTERO

12 de Noviembre
"D�a del Cartero"
No del Mensajero

Ernesto Ojeda C.
___________________________

Inside there's a card repeating that information plus
"Con mucho empe�o y alegr�a su correspondencia le traigo todo el a�o, y hoy por ser mi D�a, un saludo en estos rengiones agradeciendoles sus atenciones. Gracias por us estimulo."

(I hate to sound pedantic, but whoever wrote it could use a lesson or two about the use of accent marks in Spanish.)

I don't really understand the No del Mensajero part. I took it to indicate that the "gift" wasn't for the guy who delivers the mail.
I honestly don't know if Ernesto is the guy who rips around the neighborhood on his motorcycle delivering the mail, or if he's the postmaster of the branch post office for this section of the city.

[Guy Courchesne]

Turkey just celebrated Teacher's Day...and we do it on May 15th in Mexico. So why not Mailman Day? In NA, we have secretary's day, police officer's day, and several others.

Forgetting Mailman Day...perhaps we've located the reason for undelivered or late mail!

When is Stripper's Day?

[asi va]

I knew about teachers` day- my wife and her stepmother were both teachers and always go crazy saluting and treating each other for it. Teachers don`t get tips though, do they? And people really do give tips and presents to the postman?

[kosherpickle]

i have sent two packages with books and video games(not cheapie stuffs either) through normal post to mexico from the us and so far everything made it through all right.
maybe i have just been lucky.

[Ben Round de Bloc]

[Samantha]

Exactly! Our guy rides his motorcycle right across the yard up to the front of the house to deposit my mail from Canada into the mailbox. Then he blows his whistle to let us know we have mail. It's a rather cool system. All bills delivered by other sources ends up flung everywhere. Remembering Dia del Cartero is sensible insurance. On another note are currently training the trashmen to put our container in an upright position and somewhere in the vicinity of our house. Not much luck so far but with Xmas tipping season coming they will probably get the hang of it any day now.

[leslie]

Bye

[Samantha]

I think 50 pesos is plenty and would be really appreciated. People here tip between 20 and 50 but it depends on how much mail you get (or want to get!).

[Guy Courchesne]

Ida said 50 too...I imagine that makes for a pretty good day for the mailguy if he collected that from say, 100 homes?

[asi va]

[Guy Courchesne]

Well whaddya know...my book arrived. It was sent out late, so in all, it took 7 days shipped regular mail from Maine to Mexico City.

[corporatehuman]

I recently had a package sent from Pennsylvania to Chiapas. Took about three weeks, when it arrived here it looked like someone had taken a bat and hit it, or maybe it had fallen from the back of a truck in one of those classic postal-ways; regardless it has scars and war wounds, but

it got here.

Unfortunately customs made me pay 300 pesos to accept it.

- Chris

[ls650]

Hurray! I received FOUR packages today, shipped Oct 24, Oct 27, Nov 13 and Nov 14. It seems rather odd that one took two weeks, while another took over a month - and yet they all arrived on the same day. Why do I have the impression that they were all sitting in a heap on someone's desk?

[MELEE]

[danielita]

I am still waiting for a birthday card sent the middle of October. Yep, my mom is old fashioned and mails birthday cards to people. She even did it when I lived less than an hour from her....