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Argentina's postal service, CorreoArgentino, has improved vastly in reliability since privatization in the 1990s, but is still plagued by theft and loss. A smaller com pany, OCA, is fairly reliable but is of less use to foreign visitors as it serves only the domestic market. The telephone system is improving, both in terms of quality and price, though it has a long way to go to match services in North America, Europe and Australia; and Argentina is embracing the Internet - the network of coverage is expanding every year and finding places with public access is often easier than in Europe, North America or Australasia, since relatively few people own their own computer
Post
Postal charges
to Canada and the US
are fairly high ($1.25 for postcards and letters up to 20g), and they're higher still to
Europe and Australasia
($1.50); expect delivery times of one to two weeks, the quickest deliveries,...
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Telephones
Following privatization in the 1990s, Argentina's telecommunications system was carved in two:
Telecom
were the exclusive operators in the north of the country,
Telefónica
ran the south, and the two co-existed in Buenos Aires. As...
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Internet services
Argentina is fast catching on to the
Internet
, and is one of the best developed of the Latin American countries in terms of using it as a business tool. However, prohibitive telecommunications charges and the fact that the majority of the...
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