LIVE from the Camino Correos Bag Transport

mcopeland

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Camino Frances - April-June, 2016
Portuguese Lisbon-Santiago - October, 2017

• May 26, 2016

• #1

We have been using Jacotrans to transport my backpack (but not my husband's) for 7 euro (or sometimes 6) but have heard good things from those who use Correos. We got one of their envelopes and noticed that it said we could buy pre-paid cards with a discount at any Correos office. We went into the local post office here in Sahagun and picked up a 5 stage card for $20 - 4 euro each! Such a deal!

 

mspath

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Frances, autumn/winter; 2004, 2005-2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

• May 26, 2016

• #2

It is a very good deal and their service is excellent! Read about the Correos transport for backpacks and more here in their website.

 

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Anemone del Camino

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• May 27, 2016

• #3

Don't know if this is true or just "transport co" talk, but one thing that was brought to my attention is that if for some reason Correos misses or misplaces a bag it will not correct the mistake until the next day ...

 

mcopeland

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Time of past OR future Camino

Camino Frances - April-June, 2016
Portuguese Lisbon-Santiago - October, 2017

• May 27, 2016

• #4

I don't know. Hope we never have that experience.

One update - you have 2 choices of informing of your transport - email or phone. We chose email, but they apparently do not acknowledge your request. When we didn't hear anything from them by the next morning we got worried, so went to the nearest Correos office (a block away). The person there did not understand English and in my poor Spanish I could not communicate to him my concern, in fact he did not seem to know much about the mimochila service at all. So we called the phone number. They did have us in the system. From now on we will avoid email and call them instead.

 

ranthr

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C Frances 2005, 2007
Le Puy en Velay -SdC 2009
Via de la Plata 2011
gr 653 from Oloron to Puente la Reina 2012
Gr65 from le Puy to Figeac 2013
Irun to Santander 2013
Porto to SdC 2014
Astorga to SdC 2015

• Jun 10, 2016

• #5

Interesting option. Since I have lost a couple of lista de correos packets in old times, may be a day to day correospacket is easier. Wonder if it is possible to manage this online from home and pay online. Tried to find out on Margareths link, but only saw the mail and phonenumber. Might of course send a mail and ask.

 

mspath

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Frances, autumn/winter; 2004, 2005-2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

• Jun 11, 2016

• #6

Do send them an email and ask! I did so writing in English to MiMochila@Correos.com on behalf of another pilgrim and received an email response within half an hour.

Good luck and Buen camino!

 

Last edited: Jun 11, 2016