Today, I was buying a few postcards in a little shop of San Telmo, and I had the immense idea of buying stamps to send them to Europe. The lady told me, you need one of 5 and one of 25. I summed up, that’s 30 Centavos, less than 15 Swiss Centimes. That is really cheap, cool!
(Effectively, everything is really cheap here. One basic take-away pizza costs 3.40 Pesos, that’s 1.60 Swiss Francs. And I couldn’t finish it.)
Well, no.
After being close to making me faint announcing me the total I should pay she explained me, that’s 5 PESOS and 25 Centavos, equivalent to 2.50 Swiss Francs! To send a ridiculous postcard to Europe! This suddenly calmed down my motivation for writing postcards.
Unless I seek postal asylum in Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay or Brazil. Or Roma Fiumicino Airport Transit Zone?
Unless she wanted to make extra money with me, as the Argentine I met afterwards suggested. I’ll enquire in an official Post Office and at my Youth Hostel.
I am still traumatised by buying stamps in Cuba, where an identical stamp costed 27 times more in a Tourist Office than in a Post Office for locals. And I did pay 27 times too much for the first ones I bought.
By the way, finally I didn’t buy any stamps here yet.
