![]() Let me go through some of the different companies and methods that are the most popular. Of course, the company you are working with should help you through these stages. Not filling out the form correctly can mean weeks of delays in customs. You are responsible to make sure you follow the procedures correctly. A difficult situation that nobody could have foreseen.īe careful you follow all instructions on addressing, manifests, insurance, custom forms, etc. A package that should have arrived in 4 weeks was taking many months to come through. The shipping companies all got a lot of flack from their customers but there was nothing they could do. They were taking out every item on a container to see if it was correctly written on the manifest. There was a period about two years ago when the government decided everything had to be carefully checked at customs to make sure that they were not losing any possible income. Once again you need to know this is Honduras and sometimes things change. However, that number has allowed me to locate them when they did not arrive. All packages that I have sent to me have a tracking number and when they hit the Hondurean mail system they just disappear. I would never use it for anything that was time-dependent or important. It is extremely slow and you have to collect mail at the post office itself. So they are only useful in very urgent matters. A FedEx envelope costs about $150 and takes 4-5 days to arrive in whichever direction it goes even if you send it overnight. Sending packages by Fed Ex or DHL is prohibitively expensive unless the envelope contains some urgent and important legal document. So much for Amazon Prime shopping and overnight delivery. So depending on the time of the arrival of your package, when the container leaves the USA port, how long the container takes to travel (under a week), the time to get through customs, then the time to travel from the port to Roatan your package could take 3-5 weeks for delivery door to door. Most mail and packages are sent to companies based in the USA who collate packages for lots of people and then put them all in one container and ship them by sea to Honduras. Credit cards and the like I usually as a friend or tourist to bring down for me. Second, why are you still getting mail? These days the only thing you should receive via mail is credit cards and things you have bought. For instance, my address for years was "The blue house, past the zip line, west bay." This means that you generally have to go somewhere to pick up packages although a few companies deliver to your door even if you have to guide them the first time. The first thing to understand when you move to Roatan is that there is no address system like in many first-world countries. and part two is large items up to your whole house shipped from the USA to Roatan. Part one is all your mail which is packages like Amazon etc. ![]()
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