Dear Sir,
I am most grateful to Julie Hensley of Chapala for sharing with us her warm and buttery relationship with her mailman, making his daily rounds with home delivery.
Mailman? Home delivery? Wonder of wonders! No wonder the Mexicans say: Ajijic, tan cerca de los gringos, tan lejos de Chapala.¨
Would that I be able to go out and meet my mailman. We have to go to the post office to check the box. Week after week, empty, empty, empty.
Perhaps that’s part of the problem. They’re so Busy in Chapala making home deliveries they don’t have time to forward the mail to Ajijic.
Harvey Bliss, Ajijic
Dear Sir,
It’s great that Julie Hensley has had good luck getting her mail by “making friends” with her mailman. Unfortunately, my experience has been much more like that of Harvey Bliss.
I have paid for a post office box at the Chapala post office for 11 years. In the past, my mail usually arrived within about two weeks of the U.S. postmark. More recently, though, the average is about four months from the post mark date to the date the Chapala post office stamps on it when it arrives here.
I don’t believe the problem has anything to do with the local postal workers. Mail seems to get waylaid somewhere along the way, and it can be very frustrating!
Kathy Sterndahl, Chapala