Buy and send postcard from Toluca, Mexico?
I've seen topic asking about sending postcards from MEX airport, but I'm currently based in Toluca (on a company project) with very little spare time but I would like to send some postcards to Europe. What is the best course of action? I didn't see or found any post office nearby and the travel agency in my hotel does not sell postcards.
We may have one day off, but we are planning trip to Teotihuacan. Will it be easier there? Like more tourist-oriented infrastructure?
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Sorry I didn't see this at the time, but for anyone interested in sending post cards from Mexico, I will record my experience with this. I will qualify it by saying that my experiences with the Mexican postal service are not recent, and it's possible that by some miracle, postal service in Mexico has completely changed since I lived there.
My experience was that the best way to ensure that a letter or postcard did not get lost was to take it to the Post Office in person and give it to a clerk at a window (rather than putting it through a slot in a mailbox).
However, given a choice between mailing a letter or postcard from Mexico on day N, and taking it with me and mailing it from a first world country on day N + 3, the latter would get the letter to its destination quicker.
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