Handy Mail for Lake Chapala Ajijic

Handy Mail for Lake Chapala Ajijic

HANDY MAIL is indeed Handy, if you want to get your important mail to you safe and sound and within a reasonable time from the USA after you move to Lake Chapala – Ajijic.

I’ve used their services after trying others and they are definitely the best. Owned and run by a friend Dryden Jones Handy Mail came into existence when the service he used to use did not measure up to his expectations.

So, he opened his own service and the rest is history as they say, Let Dryden tell you in his own words about the service.

“Handy Mail is a twice weekly mail forwarding service from Laredo, Texas, serving all the communities along the north shore, Ajijic, Chapala, San Antonio Tlayacapan, La Floresta, San Juan Cosala, Racquet Club, Jocotepec, Lake Chapala, Mexico. You can receive mail from people worldwide at a United States address. We also give all members free Vonage phone calls and free internet.

We can give you a box number now via email or phone (USA/Canada call 210-200-8776. Pay when you arrive, no charge until you begin receiving mail.

PRICES

For payment on a monthly basis the charge is $27.00 USD per month.

For a six month account paid in full the change is $144 ($24 per mo. ..a saving of $18 USD)

For a 1 year account paid in full the charge is $264 (a saving of $27 USD equaling one month free)

We have big boxes, better & faster service, email advisory when the mail is in, and mail forwarding when you travel.

Your International address will be:

Your Name
5802 Bob Bullock C1
Unit 328C-XXX (XXX = your Box Number)
Laredo, TX 78041-8813
USA -if needed outside the USA)

Local mail and mail from inside Mexico, Fed Ex, UPS, messages etc. can be sent to your Box Location at:

Carr. Chapala-Jocotepec #159 C- X (X= your Box Number) ;
San Antonio Tlayacapan,
Jalisco, Mexico. 45915

Local letters and messages may also be dropped off there.

Perhaps this is the way the mail used to be delivered. Well Maybe not !

OUR HOURS

We are open week days 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM; Sat. 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM.

OUR LOCATION

Carr. Chapala – Jocotepec # 159C;
One Block East of SuperLake
San Antonio Tlayacapan.

HOW IT WORKS

The mail leaves Laredo, Texas, semi weekly and arrives here in 2-3 days. Our competitors generally take longer.)

NO PACKAGES – You must receive only letters, newspapers, magazines and large envelopes not too thick (must be able to bend).

One kilo (2.2 pounds; 35.2 oz) per shipment without an overweight charge.

This is what our shipper charges us, $1.20 USD per one-half kilo (1.1 pounds, 17.6 oz.) Very few people ever run over.

When mail arrives we will email you (privately) advising which boxes numbers have received mail. If you have no internet, you can check the website and the mail boxes will be listed there with the date it arrived.

OUR GUARANTEE

If after trying HANDY MAIL for a month or so you are dissatisfied with our service, we will refund 100% of your money.

FORWARDING YOUR MAIL

We cannot be responsible for MAIL FORWARDING, but will assist in forwarding mail via the Lake Chapala Society (“LCS”) for Handy Mail Members who pay Box Rent on at least a six months basis.

You will continue to pay the basic “Box Rent” just for the months when the mail is forwarded, plus a $5.00 USD per month charge for this extra service.

You must supply stickers for the envelopes with your mail forwarding address thereon. LCS will not accept magazines or large packets.

Should you desire merely to have your Box held open for you, without mail service when you are away, we shall do so at a cost of $5.00 US per month.

Please advise if we can assist further.

EMAIL US

Or Call 210-200-8776 dryden44jones@gmail.com

ADDITIONAL MAIL INFORMATION – IMPORTANT

CHECK YOUR ADDRESS

Continually check your address on correspondence. Many business computers keep altering the Laredo numbers of 5802 Bob Bullock C1 and 328C-X (X = Your Box Number) by separating them and also joining the numbers, sometimes omitting a digit. It may be helpful to have a correspondent place in front of your Box Number “Apt.,” “Ste.,” etc.; thus Apt.328C-X. is OK.

ITEMS REQUIRING A SIGNED RECEIPT

Regarding items that require a signed receipt for the U.S. Postal Service, Fed Ex or UPS etc. which are addressed to you via our Laredo, Texas, mail forwarding address. The items will be signed for in Laredo only. Any tracking or safety factor ends there.

Items requiring a signed receipt are delayed an additional week or two and opened for Mexican Customs in anticipation of taxable items.

We strongly recommend that your important items requiring a signed receipts be sent by Fed Ex, UPS etc. to your local Mexican residence address or your HANDY MAIL Box location in San Antonio Tlayacapan.

PACKAGES

NO PACKAGES – They may get lost. Please warn all possible package senders NOT to mail them to your HANDY MAIL Laredo, Texas, address. One can use Fed Ex, UPS etc. with items addressed to your HANDY MAIL Box in San Antonio Tlayacapan, or your residence. This is the only safe shipping way and also to secure a proper signed receipt. People also ask friends who are traveling back and forth to help.

We have no connection with the U.S. Postal Service. Our mail arrives in Laredo, Texas, at the Shipper’s Warehouse, 5802 Bob Bullock C1. All letters are then promptly taken directly across the border and on to the shipper’s plant in San Louis Potosi. There it is sorted and ours comes to San Antonio Tlayacapan. In Laredo, packages, packets, items requiring a signed receipt and all questionable items are stopped, opened and searched for taxable items. Our competitors use the same shippers (Merkalink-Estafeta) who handle all, or about all, the mail transportation in Mexico. THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS that we do NOT accept packages and thus normal letters bypass examinations by Mexican Customs.

Packages are one of our biggest downers in Mexico. Some people use the Mexican mail, but postage is extremely high and there is some pilferage. To transport items, we suggest you ask friends for help and reciprocate when coming and going to the States or Canada; also Fed Ex, UPS etc. addressed to your HANDY MAIL Box in San Antonio Tlayacapan or your residence.

Do not mail anything labeled with a questionable manufacturer’s name or an illegal product’s name showing on the envelope for shipment into Mexico (i.e. Medicine, Computer Items etc.). They will be confiscated; have them repackaged. Customers have told us that they have a friend re-wrap medicine and place it in a plain fairly flat business letter size envelope.

Magazines in clear plastic envelopes are fine, regardless of size or weight. The big N.Y. Times and Chicago Tribune are OK unpackaged.

We are sorry that there is not a good reasonably priced way to ship packages and packets into Mexico This is one of the fees we pay for our fabulous weather. If a friend or relative forgets and does send a package to you, please advise and we shall try to help. They are usually lost. The shipper’s basic minimum charge is $18.00 USD and to that one must add extra for weight, Mexican Customs Duty and other fees. The total is grim and we do not desire to be in the position of collecting this horrible total.

REFERRING A FRIEND

Please refer a friend to HANDY MAIL.

We will give you two months Box Rent free when a referred person signs up for 6 months. If initially they sign up for just one month or so and continue on for a total of six months, that still applies.

CONTACT US

Email: dryden44jones@gmail.com

Phone:

011 52 (376) 766-3813

USA / Canada 210-200-8776

Local: (376) 766-3813

USA Phone Number:

210-200-8776″