FedEx is sometimes the only option to send things to South America. As your mail can be withheld from delivery, stolen, or even isolated not to be returned when using other carrying services. Trying to rely on the National Post within the countries of South America requires a great commitment. Only recently had numbers for houses on dirt roads began to be entered into maps that could be identified by Google. But the mail delivery peoples do not use Google Maps other than FedEx. It is exceedingly difficult to say how South Americans get their directions if it were not from Google Maps. Trying to account for their sense of direction, is nearly the same as having no identification. For the majority, listening to where you have been and repeating that to others is how to conform to the knowledge of getting where you are headed.
The mail on the other hand does not tell you how it got there and how to get to where it wants to go. The mail simply states it wants to get somewhere and needs you to take it there without question. However, many South American cultures like Colombia want to ask too any questions in its obscurely named National Post. It is not named 24/7 but rather 472 for no reason whatsoever, not even cute. For this reason, that leads mostly to cruel and innocuous behavior, most of the time it is safer, quicker, and more reliable to use FedEx even though the price is hundreds of times higher.
Trying to get letters to my separated wife, they never arrived, and I am afraid were stolen and read by molesting workers who are incapable of being just. I did not use FedEx, as I would have only been able to write every other month to send her something and not the many times, I send her something with the USPS postage. Receiving my things from Colombia when arriving in the US to sell my literature, I was sent them using DHL and they arrived safely after many months. I believe the cost was reasonable, but it could not have been afforded to send my purse and collectibles, in that those inspecting my goods needed an excuse to keep my things in their country. Just the same as they do not even deliver them to my separated wife.
I have seen two FedEx stores in Dallas close recently and I am not sure who is going to begin to take their place. The USPTO has been under threat by the President in past news and it was good to see that the bailout did go to them to leave them means. It would be a shame for all those that have dealings around the world, but in my focus South America who need to get supplies to those there with a guarantee and satisfaction that the materials will arrive to the recipient. Especially when there is no war in South America, there is no American entity to turn to there. The American Embassy treats many Americans who are not able take advantage of their situation through their own means, as outsiders who can be brushed off as easily as the locals who they wish to act superior. It was frustrating calling into the American Embassy in Bogotá to be told they could get away with anything including laughing at me for needing assistance in a town not far away outside the city. If I for any reason had a request, it would not have been met or even noted. Including where my mail has disappeared to, written words that were supposed to show my love to my then wife.
South America makes many things illegal, including most popular apps. Their actions all the time demonstrate an inability to accept that they cannot change, and they do not act with courage to change the things they can. I am very upset my separated wife can no longer receive my mail, even with Covid-19 and the international mail system blocked, it would be nice to again write her a letter in confidence that she can open at her house to read. It does not seem like this will come true and it is just a reminder that even FedEx has its fair share of hardships in South America. It needs to be said that these countries are poor, but their basket of goods are far beyond what is easily sent in the US.