After only six or seven years, we've finally purchased a post-office box. I'm not sure if it is more surprising that we took so very long, or will be more surprising when we actually get some mail. A PO box here is an inexpensive proposition- it was about $10 to get it, then will cost under $5 annually to keep it.

Getting mail at home, by the way, is a hit-and-miss affair at best. Just today I received a letter sent within Costa Rica. It took 10 calendar days to arrive. It was addressed to my home address, but the post man knows my name and that I worked at the office, so he tried to deliver it there. Unfortunately, we've recently moved offices and the note on the window at the old office is in English.... so the letter only just arrived at the new office today.

While you and I may have considered delivery to the *home* address that was printed on the actual letter, the postman, apparently did not. So we got it 10 days late.

Hence the PO box.

If you would like to enter the wild world of sending mail to Costa Rica, you can address it to:

Steve Broyles
Aptdo: #33-5159
Villareal, Santa Cruz, GTE
Costa Rica, Central America

You could try using Jocelyn's name, but who knows what sort of confusion that might cause!

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