Sharper - 11:52 pm on Sep 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

A lot of south American countries have wide-spread problems with their mail. My sister is a missionary in Brazil right now and they literally recommend that if you are going to send a pair of shoes from the U.S., you send each shoe in a different package to reduce the likelyhood that they are stolen. Most of the stuff we send her never gets through if it is of value at all. We've taken to sending packages via special courier to the mission headquarters and letting her mission organization distribute it (she moves around too much in remote areas to go direct). It's slower, but it eventually gets things to her without passing through the local post office.

One thing you might try is to see if you can open a bank account with an International bank with branches in Argentina and the U.S. and then see if you can get U.S. companies to direct deposit to that account via their U.S. bank. You could also look into an internet-based bank, but I'm not sure if they have the same restrictions as normal U.S. banks or not.