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Sam Wilson

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Apr 6, 2021, 10:20:19 AM4/6/21
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Hi Joe,

A quick consulta porfa...  I sent a test letter from the US to CR using Aeropost's mail & magazines address.  I got one notice from them when my test letter arrived in Miami but nothing about it arriving in CR or at the Liberia counter I've got selected for my deliveries.  Do you normally get more than the initial notice from them about a doc arriving in Miami?  I'd hate to take half a day to drive to Liberia only to find that I've got nothing sitting at the counter for me.  Their initial notice about my test letter arriving in Miami did say that it should be at "my counter" in 2 business days, but with Semana Santa and all I took that with a grain of sal.

Thanks for any insight into their procedures.

Sam

Joe Harrison

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Apr 6, 2021, 12:29:50 PM4/6/21
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Hi Sam,  maybe I'm getting confused with other delivery services, but I think what I get from Aeroost when something actually arrives here in CR is a notification of how much I owe them.  Like $1.58 for a letter, etc.  That confirms that the item has found its way to CR and has cleared Aduana.  Just to be sure, I then give it another couple of days to get here to San Ramón.   joe

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Sam Wilson

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Apr 6, 2021, 12:41:15 PM4/6/21
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Hi Joe,

Yes, I did get that: $1.58 charge for int'l freight for the letter and an email saying it had been received in Miami all at the same time.  If you don't count last Thu & Fri, it has been 5 business days since they said it should be there within 2.  I'm gonna assume that those are the only notices we get from Aeropost about regular mail then.  My letter should have arrived at the counter in Liberia and I'll plan on swinging by to pick it up during the next trip into town.

Thanks,

Sam

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Joe Harrison

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Apr 6, 2021, 12:47:46 PM4/6/21
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Maybe a call or email to confirm would also be in order, but I've never done that.  On the other hand, my local Aeropost office has never been more than a 10 minute walk from my home!!!  How long is the walk from your home to Liberia?????????????????

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 10:41 AM Sam Wilson <sliw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Joe,

Yes, I did get that: $1.58 charge for int'l freight for the letter and an email saying it had been received in Miami all at the same time.  If you don't count last Thu & Fri, it has been 5 business days since they said it should be there within 2.  I'm gonna assume that those are the only notices we get from Aeropost about regular mail then.  My letter should have arrived at the counter in Liberia and I'll plan on swinging by to pick it up during the next trip into town.

Thanks,

Sam

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 10:29 AM Joe Harrison <joeharr...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Sam,  maybe I'm getting confused with other delivery services, but I think what I get from Aeroost when something actually arrives here in CR is a notification of how much I owe them.  Like $1.58 for a letter, etc.  That confirms that the item has found its way to CR and has cleared Aduana.  Just to be sure, I then give it another couple of days to get here to San Ramón.   joe

On Tue, Apr 6, 2021 at 8:20 AM Sam Wilson <sliw...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Joe,

A quick consulta porfa...  I sent a test letter from the US to CR using Aeropost's mail & magazines address.  I got one notice from them when my test letter arrived in Miami but nothing about it arriving in CR or at the Liberia counter I've got selected for my deliveries.  Do you normally get more than the initial notice from them about a doc arriving in Miami?  I'd hate to take half a day to drive to Liberia only to find that I've got nothing sitting at the counter for me.  Their initial notice about my test letter arriving in Miami did say that it should be at "my counter" in 2 business days, but with Semana Santa and all I took that with a grain of sal.

Thanks for any insight into their procedures.

Sam

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Sam Wilson

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Apr 6, 2021, 1:03:52 PM4/6/21
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Two days on horseback... jejeje.

Joe Harrison

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Apr 6, 2021, 1:08:27 PM4/6/21
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That's animal cruelty, man!!!!   The mail is for you, not your fuckin' horse.  Use your own 2 feet!!!!!!!

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Sam Wilson

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Apr 6, 2021, 2:03:15 PM4/6/21
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Joe,

Well, there is a road now...  I guess walking wouldn't be so bad.  However it would take longer seeing as how we've now got 8 or 9 watering holes between here and there.  Back in the day, 2 of my would be cuñadas almost died as they were being taken on horseback down the mountain for medical care -- one did and the other survived.  I think they were both 2 or 3 years old back then.  It took a day to get down off the mountain on horseback and from there a car ride over a dirt/rock road to Liberia.   I'm sure the adults waited too long before realizing the kids' ailments were serious enough for a doctor.  That still left me with 13 ½ cuñados that made it to adulthood and a gringo marrying into the family.  The survivor is by far my toughest and favorite cuñada -- she can go toe-to-tow with me on drinking rum shots and she can plant more square meters of cebollas in a day than any 3 nicas or 10 gringos combined!  ;-)

Plus it has been 4 years since I saw the last tigre in these parts.  Folks used to walk it with a pocket full of rocks for the tigres.  Now walking is not so bad.

Sam

Joe Harrison

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Apr 6, 2021, 3:49:34 PM4/6/21
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Those are great stories, albeit poquito apócrifo.  How many onions could a nica plant if a nica could plant onions????? (borrowed from the old woodchucking wood rhyme.)

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Sam Wilson

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Apr 6, 2021, 5:03:56 PM4/6/21
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Joe,

Jajaja...  I toss the "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck..." out there in self-defense whenever they start hitting me with Spanish tongue-twisters.  Nobody has even come close to repeating it to date -- especially not as fast as I can spit that one out.  ;-)  But in answer to your question, a peon muy valiente can probably plant about 40 square meters in a long day.  I, of course, have never even come close to that since I just plant cebollas for a hobby rather than my daily bread.  But my cuñado the great farmer pays ¢170 per linear meter at 13 plantitas wide spaced at 10 cm apart.  So that's about ¢130 / m² or a little over ¢5 mil/day for a very good peon.  I always use examples of hard work like this for little pay as lessons for our kids about how important it is to study!  ;-)

Sembrando Cebolla y Ajo En El Campo

Pablito clavó un clavito,
¿qué clavito clavó Pablito?
el clavito que clavó Pablito,
era el clavito de Pablito.

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Joe Harrison

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Apr 6, 2021, 6:58:45 PM4/6/21
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Das en el clavo, mi amigo!

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Sam Wilson

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Apr 7, 2021, 9:46:01 AM4/7/21
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LiCR,

Here are some real pics of how we sow onion starters in Guanacaste...

cebollas1.jpg

cebollas2.jpg

During planting as well as harvest there are usually at least 30-35 peons out making the bucks... Mostly Nicas but also some Ticos who need the money.  By planting starters which have been started during the rainy season they are able to get 2 plantings in during the dry season before it rains again.

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don Jhon

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Apr 7, 2021, 9:53:05 AM4/7/21
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My only question is do they use dibbles and if so which kind?  For Nica´s I suppose it would be a "plantadora(planter) con plantador"(dibble).

don Jhon

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Apr 7, 2021, 9:57:02 AM4/7/21
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Well, I wrote that before I saw your pic.  I guess the machine?/contraption in the background is both a dibble and dibble guide?

Sam Wilson

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Apr 7, 2021, 11:21:39 AM4/7/21
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Hi don Jhon,

Yeah, that rolling dibble/dibble guide thing was new to me.  Last time I was out while they were planting onions I thought they were poking holes with sticks.  But one time my cuñado came over and we were looking at machines like this automatica planter below which I told him I could help him import or we could build something like it:

Automatic 8 Lane Onion Transplanter Machine

I don't know if he built that rolling dibble or bought it, but with the cost of labor being so cheap and the cost of imports being so expensive it totally makes sense to me doing it that way.

One of my sobrinas sent me those pics last night when I was confirming a few facts with her -- I was surprised how neat their holes were!  jajaja.  This cuñado doesn't use the pesticides that many do on their onions and he gets top dollar for his products.  He usually plants 10 hectareas in onions not too far from me and with a good harvest he profits millions (maybe ¢30-50+ million) and that is usually when he buys new equipment and trucks with cash.  This guy is a great example of how to do things right.  The Nicas love him because he treats them well and he is a smart farmer with fields all up and down our valley and the lowlands below where he now does rice.  After a harvest we all go out to pick up the scraps which are very suitable onions that are just not perfect enough to sell or maybe they were too small when they did the harvest or for some other reason they got missed.

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