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Old Feb 15, 2008 | 7:44 am
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Originally Posted by Romelle
I don't know if it has been fixed yet (would guess not), but the postal system was sufficiently unreliable a number of years ago that companies kept on their payroll a person whose function was to hand carry people's utility bill payments and such. Wonderfully inefficient overall for a country.

But I have to admit there was a lot I really liked about the place - the music, the style, the warmth, the scenery, etc.

Romelle
No, it hasn't. I have completely desisted about sending any goods to my family in Argentina by post. Even xmas/birthday cards have been lost, opened, ripped-off, you name it.
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