Tegucigalpa - Post Report Question and Answers

How do you send and receive your letters and package mail? Are local postal facilities adequate?

DPO/Pouch has been great. However, this new ordeal with lithium batteries has been a challenge with getting some electronics shipped to post. - Mar 2024

Embassy has a DPO and pouch. Have not used any local facilities besides DHL. - Jan 2024

Embassy mail room. Locals can order Amazon from the US to a locker in San Pedro Sula and then have it delivered to Tegucigalpa pretty reliably. We have never used it because the mail room at the embassy is full-service. - Aug 2023

DPO. - Feb 2022

DPO is very nice. Packages typically take an average of two weeks, but can range between 8 to 21 days. - Oct 2019

DPO. - Jul 2018

DPO is great. Sometimes political vagaries will hold up mail, but there are times when stuff posted from Florida arrives over a weekend. It can take up to 4 or 5 weeks though too, in either direction. - May 2018

Sending mail usually reaches the US within a week and a half to two weeks. Receiving mail is a crap-shoot. Some packages will take 3 weeks, others will take 6 weeks. When we first arrived, mail was taking 6-8 weeks to arrive. I also just received a package yesterday (April) that was sent out in November. Incoming mail goes through customs in San Pedro Sula, then again through customs here in Teguc before reaching the DPO. We have had numerous packages stolen. - May 2018

DPO and pouch. Takes a couple weeks depending on whether the government is cooperating. - Apr 2018

At the Embassy. - Jun 2016

- Through the embassy. - Feb 2016

DPO - Aug 2015

Through the Embassy DPO. - Jul 2015

APO/DPO. - Dec 2014

DPO. - Oct 2014

DPO/APO. - Sep 2014

Dpo, pouch. Local mail is nonexistent. - Aug 2014

DPO. - Jun 2014

DPO. - Mar 2014

DHL, FEDEX. - Jan 2014