P.O. Box availability for rural areas

01/20/23 @rnbtg. I bet that you're right about deliveries to the farm.

My suggestion would be to check, first in the town of 10k people, then in the larger city, for any merchants who serve as agents for the dominant express company in your area. In my part of Brazil that would be DHL hands down, but it may be different where you are, and you'll want the main one. Ask that person if they'll hold deliveries for you for pickup.

If yes, only ship through that company, or through Correios. Make sure that your CPF appears on the shipping label of every package, at the address of your pickup point if you're using the express company. Set up an account (they're free) in "Minhas Importações" on the Correios website; it's really a Customs portal, and not just postal. You should be able to use the express company's tracking number to follow your shipment on Minhas Importações, to associate your CPF with it if the shipper fails to do that, and to download the boleto for any import taxes or fees so you can pay them and get your package released. You should then be able to track your package to the pickup point.

In Portuguese, a how to....

https://youtu.be/FIlKJ1V0PWo

Short simple and sweet.  Your Local Post Office won't do door delivery on your domicile.  You are going to pick up your stuff at the nearest assigned office.    Make them your friends, because they are the ones to call you if you have any incoming parcel.

Just make friends with them/...

FEDEX,.UPOS/DHL.  There needs to be a Delivery HUB on your nearby MSO. If not so, your last mile goes to your Postal Services, by default. 

DHL ( the most capilarity in Brazil , and they have agreements with Brazilian Post Services ( AKA Correio )

https://www.dhl.com/br-pt/home.html

Postall Services ( Correios )

https://mais.correios.com.br/app/index.php

FEDEX

https://local.fedex.com/pt-br

UPS, never mind them.  Browns are hard to spot even in Sao Paulo.

Office  = Branch

Postal Services ( Correios )

https://mais.correios.com.br/app/index.php

Thanks for the replies. Just seeing this now for some reason. The issue is if you say order from Amazon or magalu and what have you you really never know who they use transportation wise. That video was super helpful for the postal service but since you don’t know what gets used it seems tricky. So in that scenario I contact that company and get them to hold it at a hub? I’m maybe 45-1hr from a 100k town so somewhere should have something like that. Often with deliveries it’s opaque who the company is which is a frustration already. Never knowing really when something is coming has already made me migrating to physical shops so this may be yet another reason.