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DIRECTORY
DHL Worldwide Express
52 Boulevard Abdelmoumen,
Casablanca.
Tel (0522) 97 20 20.
Globex (Federal Express)
313 Boulevard Mohammed V,
Casablanca.
Tel (0522) 45 80 00.
An Internet café in Morocco Internet Cafés
Internet 4pm. Sub-post offices close at Marrakech: Cyber Behja, 27 Rue
Bani Marine (in the medina);
Internet access is widely lunchtime; precise times vary Cybercafé Hivernage, 106 bis Rue
available throughout Morocco. according to location. Yougoslavie (in Gueliz).
Internet cafés are found in most Post offices also provide an Rabat: Student Cyber, 83
towns, cities and some villages. express mail delivery service. Avenue Hassan II.
Charges vary widely and are However, if you have something Tangier: Futurescope,
calculated according to the urgent to send, it is better to 8 Rue Youssoufia.
time spent online. A growing use a private company such
number of hotels, guesthouses as DHL Worldwide Express
and cafés offer free Wi-Fi access or Globex (Federal Express). you often find outdated daily
or charge a small fee for usage. It is also best to post letters newspapers on sale.
at a central post office rather
than use one of the yellow
street postboxes as collections Television and Radio
can be unreliable. Morocco has two television

Most post offices provide a channels: Radio Télévision
poste restante service, and this Marocaine (RTM), the public
Moroccan postage stamps system works well in Morocco. national channel that
Mail should bear the first name broadcasts in Arabic and
Postal Service
and surname of the recipient, as in French, and 2M, a privately
Morocco’s postal service has well as the name of the town. run channel that also
a reputation for being very You will need some form of broadcasts in both languages,
slow. This is often borne out identification when collecting although programmes in
by reality, especially in the mail from a poste restante. The French predominate.
case of international mail. service is free of charge. Both the Moroccan television
There are post offices in all channels are, however, severely
sizeable towns. Here, you can buy rivalled by the spread of satellite
stamps, send letters and parcels Newspapers dishes, which provide
and cash, or send postal orders. Morocco has many access to a huge
Stamps are also available in daily newspapers in number of
tobacconists and at the reception Arabic and in French. international
desk of large hotels. Central post The major leading channels. Most
offices are open from 8.30am to newspapers in French households, as well
are Le Matin, Libération as upmarket hotels,
and TelQuel. Several have satellite dishes.
weekly magazines, Broadcasts in English
such as Maroc Hebdo, are obtain able only via
TelQuel’s Le Mag and Medina, the satellite (mostly CNN
Le Temps, or the quarterly magazine and BBC). Around
quarterly publications Tangier, it is also
such as Medina, Femmes du possible to tune in to broadcasts
Maroc and Citadine have given in English from Gibraltar.
a new voice to the Moroccan After many years of state
press, which is usually quite monopoly (by RTM and Médi 1),
conservative. Moroccan radio has been
French newspapers like Le liberalised and private stations
Monde and Le Figaro are printed such as Aswat and Radio
in Casablanca at the same time Atlantic have been set up. It is
as in France. English-language also possible to tune into some
newspapers are available in European stations, including
A newspaper vendor’s display showing Tangier, Agadir, Casablanca and BBC World Service (on MHz
several daily publications Marrakech. Outside large towns 15,070) and Voice of America.

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