[Gocamino] Shipping packages to Santiago

[Rosina]

Wherever and from what-ever one may come or break out?from?we are? startlingly? the same when it comes to establishing procedures for this and that...... as pilgrims confirm? when in there walking day-in-day-out, this-hill-that-hill. this-walkway-that-route. in the Camino.
For?significantly?many legal purposes in New York State a "reasonable time" elapses after three months.? Well, postal employees in Santiago inform that packages not claimed within t this informationhree months are moved to an "inactive" storage to be disposed of under applicable local? authorized procedures to that effect.
As mentioned, pilgrims' packages are particularly looked after, and, to insure the special attention one should mark a package some prominent place with the words SANTIAGO PEREGRIN/O/A.? Many postoffices in Spain have stickers available with this information.
Again, in my umpteen pilgrimages, and those of close friends,? package-senders all for year and years,? none of us has ever had the slightest problem with the mail system in Spain.
Would that?it were so in my hometown.?
Hugs!
Rosina

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-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Jilek <guha2005 at hotmail.com>
To: argall <argall at earthlink.net>; gocamino <gocamino at oakapple.net>
Sent: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 5:37 pm
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Shipping packages to Santiago




 
At one of the refugios I recently stayed at, I saw a pamphlet from the Correos  
meant for pilgrims stating that the post office would hold the packages for a  
month.  "A reasonable time" is subjective and I am sure that they would usually  
TRY to hold the packages longer, but are not obligated to do so.  If you do not  
want to take any chances you can send them to the Pension Badalada and Manuel  
Ruzo will store them for you.  The pension, just a couple of blocks from the  
Cathedral, also gives pilgrim rates on rooms.  The prices for boxes (which you  
may purchase at the Correos) are: 
  
Small box (317x215x125mm): 15 euros for 60 days storage. 
Medium box (390x290x190mm): 20 euros for 60 days storage. 
Large box (590x390x390mm): 25 euros for 60 days storage. 
You can email Manuel at info at badalada.es or phone him at (34) 981 572 618 - (34)  
619 052 224.  He speaks excellent English. 
I both used the storage service and stayed at the pension and was very satisfied  
with both. 
Glenn 
  
  
  
  
> To: argall at earthlink.net; Gocamino at oakapple.net; SaintJames at yahoo.com 
> From: blaroli at aol.com 
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:55:54 -0400 
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Shipping packages to Santiago 
>  
> Hello you all, 
> I've asked my friends in Santiago who either work at, or are very active in,  
the Pilgrims' office and/or the Archconfraternity. They have told me that there  
is NO two-week holding limit for holding ?packages at the Santiago post office.  
Indeed, they assure that the post office is markedly accommodating to pilgrims  
and hat they will hold packages sent to general Delivery for a reasonable time. 
> As mentioned, I have sent packages to myself from Pamplona, from Jaca, from  
Sevilla, and have picked them up at the Santiago's post office even six weeks  
later.? The post office people are, whatever, very punctilious in requiring the  
original receipt from the post office where the package was?sent and unequivocal  
identification of the recipient (a passport in the case of citizens of  
non-European Union countries, since we do not have that special identification  
of theirs).? I have also notice that they are twice as inquisitive if the  
recipients declares herself or himself to be a pilgrim but the sender is someone  
else.? The insistence that the town or city where the package was mailed be  
identified makes sense to me. In the "from" section of the label I usually write  
my name, my permanent address and the address a the mailing site. 
> Sometimes what may appear to be rudeness on the part of post office or other  
employees in a different country may be attributable to communication  
difficulties. Not infrequently while at the post office myself ?I have been  
asked, or have volunteered, to help out when a customer and an employee are not  
fully understanding one another. One tiny word, or expression, or gesture, can  
make all the difference in the world. 
> Most unfortunately, ?I neither speak nor understand German, consequently when  
I send packages to myself from Austria or Germany I am pointedly apologetic  
about my language inability to the post office people there, and most of the  
time I ?look around for a customer who is fluent in both languages to help me  
out so that misunderstandings may be avoided.? 
> Having to endure the long waiting ?lines (standing) and the haughty,  
peremptory, and sometimes?downright ?rude?attitude of so many post office  
employees in New York City I very much? appreciate the European post offices  
with their take-a-number-and-go-sit-down-awaiting-your-turn system, and the fact  
that you can also purchase most packing supplies? on site. 
> Regards, 
> Rosina 
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Annette Argall <argall at earthlink.net> 
> To: gocamino <gocamino at oakapple.net> 
> Sent: Tue, Jun 14, 2011 10:25 pm 
> Subject: [Gocamino] Shipping packages to Santiago 
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> I recently sent a package from Salamanca to the Lista de Correos in  
> Santiago and picked it up exactly two weeks later. The very helpful  
> postal employee who helped me prepare and mail the package in  
> Salamanca never said anything about a time limit on picking it up.  
>  
> I toured Madrid in pilgrim clothes without any strange looks except  
> perhaps in the upscale neighborhoods where people were dressed to the  
> nines. In the tourist areas, no one seemed to care or even notice what  
> I was wearing.  
>  
> Annette  
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