Cheapest Overnight Shipping EVER!

In Bolivia, they don't have UPS, Fedex, or a postal service. The way you get packages and letters from one place to another is via the bus service, which goes absolutely everywhere, overnight. In order to get our bags from Santa Cruz to Tarija, we had to send them via bus.


We arrived at the bus station and found the shipping area. It turned out to be a long line of dilapidated stalls, one for each bus company. So there we were about to hand over all the possessions we have in the world to a (seemingly) ramshackle business run by a guy chewing coca leaves and just hope they actually arrive. Was I nervous? Most definitely.


It turns out that even though this system might seem disorganized to people from the western world, it's actually quite reliable. We dropped off the bags, wrapped them in blue tarps, paid for the shipping, and got tickets to pick them up the next day.

All together: Four bags, 275 pounds in total, shipped overnight all for $35. 


Try that in the states!