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A Good Experience with a Private Mail Service in Costa Rica

December 21st, 2007 Posted in Living in Costa Rica

1. The magazine subscriptions come directly from the publisher of whichever magazine you receive a subscription from, e.g. The Atlantic Monthly. The reason I say this is because I received a letter directly from The Atlantic thanking me for my subscription and it has an identical coding as the magazine mailing label.
2. I have been receiving two magazine subscriptions on a monthly basis for a year and have not received any junk mail as a result of these two subscriptions. If I did receive any I would just return it to Aerocasillas for a credit (see below).
3. I do receive some junk mail as a result of other shopping I have done using my Aero mailing address, e.g. Lands End; also from some of the financial institutions I have accounts with in the U.S. However, one of the things that I like about Aerocasillas is that if you do receive any “correo basura (junk mail)” all you have to do is to return it to Aerocasillas and you immediately receive a full credit for the weight/cost of the junk mail in your account.
4. In my case I use the “Dorada” plan which has a minimum charge of $12 per month; so I would be charged this amount even if I did not receive any mail. However, I also sign up for the annual pre-pay of $120 which brings it down to $10 per month. Between my magazines, my Netflix and all of my other mail I receive a fairly significant amount of mail. My monthly bill is usually within $1 - $2 more of the $10 pre-paid minimum. I would estimate that the two magazine subscriptions I receive generally account for about $5 of my monthly bill.
5. For me, my mail is delivered to the development I live in and then a guard brings the mail directly to my door so it could not be more convenient.

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