Correos de Nicaragua (tel. 222-2048, www.correos.com.ni), is the country’s postal service, delivering mail to the far reaches of the country. The government postal service offers a national courier service and a business postal service.
Correos de Nicaragua also rents P.O. Boxes at is various post offices throughout the country. You don’t have to be a resident to rent a post office box, which costs about $20/year.
Letters can be mailed to the United States or other foreign countries from the Post Office, for about $.25. Letters to the United States usually take about 10 days to reach their destination.
Local post offices offer many basic services
For private courier services, we recommend Jetbox (tel. 2780597, www.jetbox.com/nicaragua), for international courier service and heavy shipments.
Other courier services are Aerocasillas (tel. 266-6473, www.aerocasillas.com), Real Express (tel. 263-1413, www.ibcnica.com), Rapid Delivery Systems (tel. 222-3689) and Trans-Express (tel. 222-2270, www.transexpress.com).
Also available are U.S. shipping companies DHL (tel.228-4081, Granada: 552-8743, www.dhl.com), FedEx (tel. 248-4500, www.fedex.com), and UPS (tel. 266-4289, http://www.ups.com).
Foreigners can count on private mail services
for all of their postal related needs
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