Hi Donna,
You have several options. Once you have a rental or home you’ve bought head over to the local post office to talk to the mail man. Tell him where you live and that you’d like to start receiving mail there. May seem like a roundabout way to get your mail but there aren’t really street addresses in most of Costa Rica. So you need to have that one-on-one contact with your mail carrier to receive packages and letters at home in most cases.
You can also rent a post office box at Costa Rican Correos (Post Office). It runs about $40 per year. Just like in the U.S. you have box number and your own key and you pick up your mail there. For packages, they’ll put a little note in your box to let you know.
There are also private mail services like Mail Boxes Etc. that offer PO boxes but they are more expensive. FedEx, DHL, and UPS all operate in Costa Rica as well.
You can order from Amazon.com and similar online shops but international shipping rates can be pricey, depending on the item.
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