Argentina Travel Guide

Post, phones and email

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

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