El Paquete Semanal is not at all unlike the combination of sneakernet and shareware CDs that I enjoyed in semi-rural western Canada, during the 80s and early 90s. We were crippled by long-distance fees, and very few FidoNet BBS' were available; IIRC, there was one in my local calling area, and it was hideously expensive.
The local community bookstore started by selling shareware discs, in 5.25 and 3.5; and when it came available, in CDs. They were professionally packaged, and they restocked every Tuesday. The demand for content was high enough that restocking so frequently didn't mean throwing out old content. If 1tb USB drives were available then we would have used those; but they weren't, and the most economical way to deliver content was through CDs and discs. Since burners were rare, and because disc and floppy medium aren't zero-cost, it made sense for the local bookstore to sell the packaged content.
With the advent of high-speed internet to our homes, we were a test area for the deployment of cable internet in around '96, the bookstore stopped selling shareware altogether.