Border Intelligence Center
Official CBP Wait Times • Updated Automatically Throughout the Day
- San Ysidro 110 min SENTRI 10 min Heavy delay
- Otay Mesa 170 min SENTRI 25 min Heavy delay
- Tecate 60 min Current wait Heavy delay
- Pedestrian 30 min at San Ysidro Moderate delay
- USD / MXN 17.0260 Exchange rate
- Best crossing Tecate 60 min
- Updated 6:40 pm Official CBP feed
Detailed Border Wait Times (CBP)
| Port of Entry | General | Sentri | Pedestrian |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Ysidro | 110 min | 10 min | 30 min |
| Otay Mesa | 170 min | 25 min | 90 min |
| Tecate | 60 min | — | 5 min |
Estimated Total Travel Time
- From
- Colonia Tomás Aquino, Tijuana
- Drive
- 7 minutes
- Border wait
- 110 min
- Total estimate
- 117 min
Drive time is an estimate; the border wait is live and changes through the day. Check again before you travel.
Mexico Customs Official government resource
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U.S. Border Wait Times Official government resource
Check live northbound passenger vehicle and pedestrian wait times at San Ysidro and Otay Mesa before you leave Tijuana.
Trusted Traveler Programs Official government resource
SENTRI and Global Entry members use dedicated lanes at San Ysidro and Otay Mesa. Apply or renew through the official DHS portal.
Electronic I-94 Official government resource
Travellers entering the United States can obtain or review their electronic I-94 arrival record before crossing.
Vehicle Permits Official government resource
Driving beyond the Baja California free zone requires a temporary vehicle import permit, issued by Banjercito.
Medical FastLane Official government resource
Patients attending medical appointments across the border may use the Cruce Agil / Medical FastLane northbound lane.
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Colonia Tomás Aquino Quick Facts
- Drive to San Ysidro 7 minutes
- Major Shopping Teatro Cala-Fornix
- Hospitals Dr. David Aguilar Obeso
- Parks & Recreation Unidad Reforma
Welcome to Colonia Tomás Aquino, Tijuana
- Distance
- 4.1 miles
- Typical drive
- 7 minutes
- Closest crossing
- San Ysidro
San Ysidro P.O. Box N Ship gives Colonia Tomás Aquino a real U.S. street address for the parcels American retailers will not send across the border — with notification on arrival and holding until you collect.
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About Colonia Tomás Aquino, Tijuana
Colonia Tomás Aquino grew around the Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana, whose campus — teaching blocks, laboratories, language centre and the Biblioteca ITT — occupies a large part of its sixty-eight hectares. Calzada del Tecnológico runs through the middle and gives the colonia both its name in everyday use and its route out.
Around the campus the colonia is residential and long-settled, with Avenida Castillo de Chapultepec and Avenida 16 de Septiembre carrying local traffic and Avenida Veracruz and Avenida Popotla threading the blocks behind. The Teatro Cala-Fórnix, a scatter of taquerías and cenadurías, two fuel stations and the Colegio Español fill in the rest.
An engineering school produces a distinctive order book: components, instruments, development boards, tooling and technical texts, most of it from U.S. distributors who will not ship to a Mexican address at all. Student households add laptops and everyday consumer goods.
Colonia Tomás Aquino covers 68 hectares in the Mesa de Otay Centenario delegación, bordered by Altabrisa, Anexa Buena Vista, Del Río and Ignacio Zaragoza. Calzada del Tecnológico and Avenida Castillo de Chapultepec carry the colonia, and the routed drive to the store is 4.1 miles — about 7 minutes of driving, with the border wait separate and reported live on this site.
- Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana campus
- Biblioteca ITT
- Teatro Cala-Fórnix
- Calzada del Tecnológico frontage
- Roughly equidistant from both crossings
- 4.1 routed miles to the store
Neighbourhood insights
What makes Colonia Tomás Aquino, Tijuana distinctive?
Tomás Aquino is the Instituto Tecnológico's colonia, and an engineering campus orders things that U.S. suppliers almost never ship internationally.
Why do people here use a U.S. mailbox?
A San Ysidro address turns those refusals into ordinary domestic deliveries, and lets a department or a student group consolidate a term's ordering into one collection.
Who uses the service most from this area?
ITT students and staff ordering components and equipment, and the households in the surrounding blocks ordering electronics and clothing.
Nearby landmarks
The campus is the colonia's landmark, and its library and theatre are open to the neighbourhood as well as the students.
Shopping
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Teatro Cala-Fornix
Everyday and bulk shopping for Colonia Tomás Aquino, inside the colonia.
Bulk shopping happens here; range and price comparisons happen at a U.S. address.
Government Services
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Biblioteca ITT
Civic services for Colonia Tomás Aquino, inside the colonia.
Offices and the businesses around them order supplies from U.S. vendors that ship domestically.
Healthcare
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Dr. David Aguilar Obeso
A clinic used by households across Colonia Tomás Aquino, inside the colonia.
Medical supply is one of the clearest cases for a border address: the seller will not ship south.
Education
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Instituto Tecnológico de Tijuana
A campus inside Colonia Tomás Aquino, inside the colonia.
Students and staff order laptops, texts and equipment from U.S. sellers that refuse Mexican addresses.
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Wibots Robótica Educatíva Otay
Teaching provision for the colonia, about 735 m outside the colonia.
School and course equipment is ordered to a U.S. address and collected at the border.
Parks & Recreation
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Unidad Reforma
Green and sporting space for Colonia Tomás Aquino, about 773 m outside the colonia.
Equipment for the teams and families who use it arrives at a U.S. address.
Transportation
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San Ysidro Port of Entry
The crossing most collections from Colonia Tomás Aquino use; the store is on the San Ysidro side.
Routed drive only — border wait is separate, and the Border Intelligence Center reports it live.
Border crossing
The nearest crossing for Colonia Tomás Aquino, Tijuana is San Ysidro. Wait times vary considerably by hour and by day, and both pedestrian and vehicle lanes are worth checking before you travel — the pedestrian lane is often much faster when you are collecting a parcel rather than moving goods by car.
Bring the documents the crossing requires of you. A mailbox adds no further requirement of its own: collecting mail is an ordinary errand on the U.S. side.
Driving directions
Toward the San Ysidro crossing, then a short distance to the store.
- Parking
- Free parking directly outside the store. Around the Tecnológico street parking is heavily used on teaching days.
- Public transport
- Calzada del Tecnológico runs through the colonia and connects it to Boulevard Lázaro Cárdenas and the Otay corridor.
Travel times
- Distance
- about 4.1 miles
- Estimated driving time
- 7 minutes
- Plus border wait
- Varies at San Ysidro, often by hours. Check current wait times before travelling.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a student group or department share one box?
Yes, provided everyone collecting is named on the mailbox agreement.
Which crossing is better from here?
Tomás Aquino sits almost midway — 2.7 miles from San Ysidro and 3.0 from Otay Mesa in a straight line — so the reported wait usually decides it.
Can I receive Amazon packages?
Yes. A San Ysidro street address is treated as an ordinary U.S. delivery address, including by Amazon.
Will I be told when a parcel arrives?
Yes — you are notified, so the crossing happens when there is something to collect.
Can more than one person collect?
Yes, once each person is named on the mailbox agreement.
Why customers from Colonia Tomás Aquino, Tijuana choose us
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A real U.S. mailing address
A street address rather than a PO Box number, so retailers and carriers that refuse PO Boxes will still deliver.
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Secure package receiving
Parcels are signed for, logged and held securely until you collect them.
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Border convenience
Positioned for the San Ysidro crossing, so collecting a parcel is an errand rather than an expedition.
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Mail forwarding
Have mail and parcels sent onward when collecting in person is not practical.
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Digital mailbox
See what has arrived without making the trip, and decide what to do with it.
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Bilingual support
Staff who work in English and Spanish, every day, for customers on both sides of the border.
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Business services
Notary, printing and a registered address businesses can use for supplier deliveries.
Why customers trust us
- Secure & Reliable Locked mailboxes and monitored premises
- Bilingual Team English and Spanish, every day
- Every Major Carrier UPS, FedEx, USPS and DHL accepted
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