Chile Forum

I just received a first class airmail parcel from New York and it took one additional day than the time it takes for a similar parcel to arrive from Los Angeles, so 22 days to get to Chile and 1 day to get to the coast.

I have received probably 9 USPS Airmail or USPS First Class Airmail parcels in the past three months or so and all have reached me and any additional delay than the 21 days to get to Chile can always be attributed to a holiday or a customs strike.

Each parcel had the mailing label directly on the box and from what I can tell, not one was opened by Chile Aduanas. Other stuff that gets put on these bare boxes are the USPS stickers and declaration, the Chile Aduanas stamp and the Chile Correos sticker. I believe the OP's mistake was to put wrapping paper on the box and thus all the sending and receiving information on that paper. This would be a very tempting target IMO for a lost mail scam / free gift for someone with few scruples.

Moral of story: DO NOT PUT ANY SORT OF WRAPPING PAPER ON USPS PARCELS TO CHILE, AFFIX ALL INFO FIRMLY ONTO THE BARE BOX AND JUST USE REGULAR CLEAR PACKING TAPE.

YMMV.

By the way. I just got a x-mas card from the States that was post marked on the 28th of December, and arrived January 22nd. So it seems about 30 days is the going rate.

Get a box in Miami if you want things faster than that.

I had a package that was sent from Australia on the 7th of December and arrived here on the 26th of Jan. I have had a few other packages sent and they all only took 13 days or so! I had lost all hopes for this last package but it arrived- all be it a little late and all. I have had one package go missing from the US- but the guy on EBay re sent it for me free of charge so that was okay.

Just received a USPS Airmail parcel from the LA area in 20 days to the coast which means 19 days to Santiago.

SAG opened it.

SAG resealed it with white packing tape with their motif in big green letters. They took care to rewrap the contents without damage.