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Dear Dave,

Consider it possible that Correos del Ecuador has received some of your mail and -- for reasons we Gringos do not understand -- is not delivering to your domicilio..

Go to the office nearest you and ask around?  Is the mail in the back?  Is it at the central office in town?  Was it returned to sender because nobody picked it up?  Is there a method to be notified when mail arrives?  Did the mail lack a postal code or proper addressing?

cccmedia

Hi and thanks for your reply

So we do not have a postcode as such, and the mail was not returned .......

As for the local office, we tried that as well and were simply told that "it was nothing to do with them"

Stalemate I fear!!

Other strategies....

1.  Go another day and ask a difference postal person.

2.  Arrange to speak to the jefe.

3.   Go to the main office in town and ask there.

cccmedia

There is a cheese shop here on Madrid street in La Floresta that has some selection.

dave.j.harman wrote:

I am missing European and British cheeses, having looked at Ecuadorian - and indeed general South and central American cheese, it tends to be made and sold almost immediately, without the lengthy storage  and maturity process that gives European cheese so much flavour .... I've found good Manchego (in San Luis Mall), and several Dutch cheeses in Megamaxi, but am hoping .... somewhere .......  to find British Cheddars, or  other "hard" cheeses, or Italian ............ anybody found any in and around Quito.

To give wider audience to your cheesiest questions, Dave, you may wish to post on the "For Cheese Lovers Only" thread of this Ecuador forum.  The generic title you gave to this thread may be causing some interested parties to miss out.

Link:

/forum/viewtopic.php?id=420648

  -- cccmedia at the É«»¨Ìà Cheese Desk near the Rumichaca Border Crossing
      between Ecuador and Colombia