tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447441.post3773116971793579491..comments2023-10-07T13:09:00.391+01:00Comments on Around The World In Beautiful Shoes: Correos???Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447441.post-63918125218918068642007-10-24T19:57:00.000+01:002007-10-24T19:57:00.000+01:00Jayant, post office open for 8 hours! That reminds...Jayant, post office open for 8 hours! That reminds me of civilized world! Correos in my current dictionary is a swear word! Yes was "lucky", because of this poor service I managed to write a really good article (or at least i think so...).CGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17555431785204713112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447441.post-27818731764767393412007-10-24T11:56:00.000+01:002007-10-24T11:56:00.000+01:00accept my sympathy,Carra!!!You know what,being fro...accept my sympathy,Carra!!!<BR/>You know what,being from India I didnt even know what "Correos" is,so before going through the post I used an english dictionary to search for it,returing no results.Then,going by your location,I searched n online spanish dictionary to find out that it's their postal service,and,as the dictionary describes,it's one of the largest postal services in the world!!<BR/><BR/>Anyways,I must admit that you're not alone.We do get postal delays here in India but it never stretches over a day or two.And now I consider my country lucky to have the post offices open at least 8 hour a day!<BR/><BR/>Hope you'll soon have improved version of "Correos"(though I thank it,as you wudnt hve posted this if it had functioned properly!!!) :PJayanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10625016951136373596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447441.post-45448329359994304572007-10-16T18:17:00.000+01:002007-10-16T18:17:00.000+01:00Anonymous, I actually do know that... I was being ...Anonymous, I actually do know that... I was being sarcastic.. And even if they are duty free so are the Channel islands of the UK, but you don't need to fill out customs declaration to post something there. Why customs declaration is needed if they are DUTY FREE???CGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17555431785204713112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447441.post-15412529875205072032007-10-16T17:59:00.000+01:002007-10-16T17:59:00.000+01:00The Canary Islands ARE part of Spain, but they're ...The Canary Islands ARE part of Spain, but they're an autonomous region and are duty-free.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447441.post-73007254349921549252007-10-16T15:21:00.000+01:002007-10-16T15:21:00.000+01:00The idea for the novel sounds pretty good, I hadn'...The idea for the novel sounds pretty good, I hadn't thought of it before..<BR/>Also if you have any broken bottles of maple syrup would you mind sending them to me? At least you'll have a way to dispose of them. :)CGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17555431785204713112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20447441.post-70512980821754582632007-10-16T15:02:00.000+01:002007-10-16T15:02:00.000+01:00Ha, ha. What a lovely anecdote. I am quite sure yo...Ha, ha. What a lovely anecdote. I am quite sure you do not find it amusing, but it speaks volumes about a sleepy Spanish town, with its indifferent postal station. It really deserves to be part of a novel.<BR/><BR/>It is only open for half-an-hour each day? I used to live in a small town in Canada where the post office was only open a few hours each day, but it didn't really matter, since I would just go to the larger town with a full service post office. <BR/><BR/>The bureaucracy has probably decided that running the post office is too expensive, so they only allocate it so many hours per week. Personally, I think it would be better to just close the post office.<BR/><BR/>I know all too well about how long it takes mail to travel somewhere. When I was still writing letters, it took 3-4 days for a letter to go from Ottawa to Hong Kong or Tokyo, but 7-10 days to go from Ottawa to Montreal (about 200Km). I never understood why an overseas letter arrived faster than a letter within the same country. Of course, it may have been a provincial boundary problem, since Ottawa is in the province of Ontario and Montreal is in the province of Quebec (it used to take 3-7 days for a letter to go from Ottawa to Toronto - about 450Km, but it was in the same province)Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08466885792177930052noreply@blogger.com