Communications : post-office, mail, telephone

Faxes may be sent from most hotels.

Stamps may be bought, preferably with postcards, at tobacconist’s, bars, and newsstands. There are two post offices, la poste >
la poste < in town and one in each of the outlying suburbs. Aix’s main post office is located on the Avenue des Belges near the Place de la Rotonde, and its “old” post office on the Place de la Mairie. Stamps for mail under 20g. addressed anywhere in Europe (including France) cost 50 cents.
Airmail to North America: 0,90 euros. Ten prestamped envelopes for overseas may be bought for a bargain!

n.b. Attractive collectors’ stamps timbres de collection > tahmbruh duh kollexiohn < are available at all post offices. Specimens are on display.

Registered mail recommandé > ruhkomahndeh < with receipt from addressee, costs 5,55 euros for 20g.

All tarifs on the web site of french post-office : www.laposte.fr

Minitel, France’s pre-internet electronic information service is available in post offices free of charge and through the wanadoo portal http://www.wanadoo.fr.

Telephone : many hotels are equipped with telephones in all rooms. Failing this, there is usually a public phone in the lobby. Some coin phones are still in use, though almost all public phones now require a telecard télécarte > tellehkahrt < These cost 9 euros for 50 units, and 15 euros for 120 units and may be purchased from newsstands kiosque à journaux, bars/tabacs, > keeosks ah joornohs, bahr tabah < and post offices.

To use a public telephone with a telecard :