Guatemala City - Post Report Question and Answers
How do you send and receive your letters and package mail? Are local postal facilities adequate?
DPO and pouch. Guatemala does not have a functional mail service. They do have DHL and some other businesses that will ship from the U.S. - Mar 2023
US embassy has both pouch and DPO. Since COVID, they have both been remarkably unreliable. Packages have been lost, routed to El Salvador for weeks at a time, or just show up months later than expected. I highly recommend keeping a list of expected incoming and outgoing mail with tracking numbers. - Oct 2022
DPO and pouch. - Oct 2022
I have not used a local postal facility, but at the embassy we are able to send and receive packages. You can get anything shipped here from Amazon will usually arrive within two weeks. - Jul 2021
We use the DPO/pouch. It takes a bit longer (anywhere from a week to six weeks), but it's adequate. - Jan 2020
DPO is fast and reliable. There is no Guatemalan postal service. - Mar 2019
Local options not used (available?) or (secure?) but embassy mail room is fine. - Feb 2019
DPO or pouch. DPO takes an average of a week using Amazon Prime, pouch takes longer. - Jun 2015
DPO and diplomatic pouch. - Apr 2014
DPO...most things arrive pretty quickly -- a week or two from the States! - Nov 2011
From the DPO at the embassy. - May 2010
I have APO access. I've heard stories of stuff getting lost/stolen in the Guatemalan postal system and being delayed in customs. - Mar 2008
