New member and book-lover BC45 in Jacksonville, Florida, has just introduced himself as a frugal-living retiree, age 70.
He is falling in love with Cuenca from afar, but won't be able afford to satisfy his book addiction if he has to pay the $42/package surcharge now demanded by Correos del Ecuador. BC typically orders four to six books or more per month.
----
Correos may or may not technically "offer" an exemption from the surcharge for some books, but that's irrelevant to most Gringos because EC's mail agency is so impossible to deal with in such matters.
So you can start reading your books, BC, in the 21st century way ... via Amazon Kindle.
Sure, you'll miss the old-timey feel of the pages in your fingers. But I predict that when you join one of the Amazon monthly programs for their low-low price and can read unlimited books every month, you'll find a way to get used to it.
The Kindle Reader they provide is free, and access to any book is instantaneous once you register your credit or debit card.
Now most books are not included in the super-low-cost monthly program, so you can order non-program titles just as rapidly by paying the lower-than-regular-books Kindle price.
This will reduce the clutter in your new Cuenca apartment as well.
Come on down.*
cccmedia in Quito
* Please visit before you make a permanent move.