A friend of mine had a P.O. Box and he always received mail in his box although, once gain, a little slow.

My wife tried to get a P.O. Box but they are all rented. She was told to have her mail sent "General Delivery" and they would hand it to her over the counter-3 pieces were sent and the postal agent could never findthem.

In any case I advise using DHL for packages, even for one page documents-it is pricey but it gets there. One disadvantage is they won't ship a lot of things, i.e., I needed to send a small electronic item back to the U.S. but they would not accept it . I advertised on this board for help and found someone to take it to the U.S. and mail it fro there.

The post office is located near Copels on a side street.

Lack of a good low cost postal system is no doubt one of the many reasons this economy has trouble realizing its potential.

This is my third winter here and I don’t recall ever seeing a post office, a mail box, or a letter carrier. How do people send and receive snail mail or parcels

The Oficina de Correos is near the main Coppel store tucked away on its own little street called Calle del Cartero. Decades ago it used to be at what was called the Palacio Federal, now the Museo Arqueológico de la Costa Grande. Since street addresses were mostly non-existent, if you didn't have an APDO address you'd have to wait for the gentle giant of a man named Javier to bring it to you or simply go and ask for your mail. Since everyone knew each other back then, it was common that folks would pick up mail for their neighbors.

See the Google Map:
https://goo.gl/YEqYbQ