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I will in fact open such a service in a few weeks (I live in Santiago de Compostela). Stay tuned here for more info on when I am open. Once I am up and running you can send your bag to me and pick it up once in Santiago, no problem. You could, in theory, mail it to me before you leave home if you would like to reduce the stress with the bag.Or is there a place to send it in Santiago for holding for a month?
If he decides to come up, check http://www.ryanair.com for tickets starting at €0,- + taxes (!).At the present time he is not planning to come up to Santiago but that could change.
Looking at the facilities at the Pamplona airport, it does not look like there is a post office there.Portia1 said:Is it possible to post somethingfromthe airport in Pamplona? For example, to send a box to Santiago (Ivar) from there without having to go to the post office in the city? I could check my duffle on the airline in a box, open it up (take out my poles, knife, etc. that must be checked) and reseal it and post it.
annakappa said:So... for our 30 day walk, plus the travelling there and back, we existed on only the few essentials we carried in our pack (my total weight was 6 kg and Adriaan's 7 kg.) I had even brought too much. Could have managed with one pair of trousers and one T-shirt less!
papajohn said:Hi and welcome Portia, my wife and I walked in Sept. 06 and as has been said TSA will not allow wallking sticks as carry on. My solution was to purchase some very light weight nylon material which I sewed up into a simple bag approx 14x24in. I put all the things that I could not carrry on, like sticks, swiss army knife, liquid soap, etc, into the bag and then wraped it with my light cord that I used as a clothesline, and checked it as baggage. No questions were asked. On the camino, I used the bag to hold my sleeping bag in my pack and as a pillowcase at night. On the return trip home we reversed the process and checked the packs and carried onboard in the bag the things which we had purchased in Spain and our compostelas which at that point were more precious than our packs. Additionally this made it very convenient that everything which we had to declare for customs was in one place. Buen Camino John
I did receive a duffel bag (no box) today form the post office in SJJP. So I think the post office in SJPP does send almost "anything". The bag was 32kg (!), about 1 meter long.... if your suitcase is not a big one I think you should be ok with sending it via the post office.saskatoonwalking said:Is there a way to send a small suitcase to Santiago from Biarritz? /from St.Jean Pied de Port? Will a post office send a suitcase to Ivar Rekve in Santiago?
I am not in the office right now, and I am not quite sure... but around € 50-60 euro I think. Remember this would be an international shipment. Pamplona would be more "local" (and cheaper).WolverineDG said:Ivar, about how much was the postage on that duffel bag? I'm going to be on a very tight budget & am trying to figure out my expenses beforehand. Good to know I can mail something from SJP instead of hauling it to Pamplona!
Kelly
ivar said:I did receive a duffel bag (no box) today form the post office in SJJP. So I think the post office in SJPP does send almost "anything". The bag was 32kg (!), about 1 meter long.... if your suitcase is not a big one I think you should be ok with sending it via the post office.saskatoonwalking said:Is there a way to send a small suitcase to Santiago from Biarritz? /from St.Jean Pied de Port? Will a post office send a suitcase to Ivar Rekve in Santiago?
Greetings from a grey (but no rain!) Santiago,
Ivar
Thank you for the information Ivar! 50 euro!! Do you think a box mailed from SJPP post office is cheaper? Do you think I could send you my small suitcase by bus from SJPP? / by train? by courier? As you can probably tell, a suitcase for the remainder of our holidaying in Spain would be nice. Not crucial - but nice. I'd rather send a small suitcase than a box.ivar said:I am not in the office right now, and I am not quite sure... but around € 50-60 euro I think. Remember this would be an international shipment. Pamplona would be more "local" (and cheaper).WolverineDG said:Ivar, about how much was the postage on that duffel bag? I'm going to be on a very tight budget & am trying to figure out my expenses beforehand. Good to know I can mail something from SJP instead of hauling it to Pamplona!
Kelly
Saludos,
Ivar
A small box should be a lot less. The bag I was mentioning was 32kg! It was very heavy...saskatoonwalking said:Thank you for the information Ivar! 50 euro!! Do you think a box mailed from SJPP post office is cheaper? Do you think I could send you my small suitcase by bus from SJPP? / by train? by courier? As you can probably tell, a suitcase for the remainder of our holidaying in Spain would be nice. Not crucial - but nice. I'd rather send a small suitcase than a box.ivar said:I am not in the office right now, and I am not quite sure... but around € 50-60 euro I think. Remember this would be an international shipment. Pamplona would be more "local" (and cheaper).WolverineDG said:Ivar, about how much was the postage on that duffel bag? I'm going to be on a very tight budget & am trying to figure out my expenses beforehand. Good to know I can mail something from SJP instead of hauling it to Pamplona!
Kelly
Saludos,
Ivar
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As far as I know, the post office in Spain will hold it for 15 days. The post office in Santiago used to have a special deal, holding it for 30 days, but this has now stopped. Now they are holding it for 15 days. This said, as with many other things in Spain.... one thing is what they say and another thing is what they do... I have heard of people picking up their box at the post office, and the box was there for more than 15 days... but it might be a bit of a gamble.... One trick was to send the box to Santiago, with the "Sender" address being the Santiago post office. (=they had nowhere to return it).viajero said:I was told at correos that they only old items for 15 days. I imagine this is a policy for all post offices there but I have no details.
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