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laptop or smartphone can The mail itself is quite reliable
also use the Internet at one and efficient, though it tends
of the phone centers around to be slower around Christmas
Termini station. time. For urgent items, use
Some Internet cafés offer the post office’s express or
headphones and webcams registered service.
so customers can use Skype The Italian post office offers
or other chat programs. Many a poste restante service, where
Internet points have WiFi so letters and packages addressed
you can access the Internet to you can be picked up
through your own laptop with directly at the post office. Mail
a password provided by the should be sent care of (c/o)
assistant. An antiterrorism law Fermo Posta and the name of
requires Internet café staff to the relevant post office. Print
take customers’ information your last name clearly in block
from an official ID (such as a capitals and underline it to Foreign papers at a newsstand
passport), so staff may want make sure it is filed correctly.
to take a photocopy before To pick up your mail, you have in English at the back that
allowing use of the Internet to show your pass port and provides the week’s top listings.
on their computers. This does pay a small charge. The magazines Wanted in Rome
not apply to customers using Regular post office hours (www.wantedinrome.com) and
their own laptops. are generally from around Where Rome (www.whererome.it)
Many cafés and bars have 8:30am to 2pm (8:30am to also have English listings. Some
wireless hotspots. You can also noon on Saturdays and on of these publications also have
sign up to access free WiFi holiday eves), but main offices websites full of information.
for a couple of hours a day stay open until well into the The state TV channels are RAI
in a number of public spaces evening for some services Uno, Due, and Tre, matched by
through out the city by (such as registered mail). four private channels. Analog TV
registering at www.roma has been replaced by digital
wireless.com. across the country, so as well
as picking up Italian state and
Postal Services
private networks, most
Post offices are multifunctional televisions will be able to access
in Italy, used not only for postal various channels in English.
services, but also for paying Mailbox with two slots Vatican Radio transmits on
bills, managing certain bank 93.3MHz and 105MHz (FM) and
accounts, and more. Lines can also broadcasts news in English.
be long and disorganized, so if Newspapers, TV,
and Radio
you are just mailing a regular DIRECTORY
letter or postcard, save yourself Rome’s main newspapers are
the exasperation and buy a La Repubblica and Il Messaggero. Internet Cafés
stamp at a tobacconist’s store. American and British news Yex Change
Then drop your letter in one of papers are readily available, Piazza Sant’Andrea
the mailboxes on walls around with the International Herald della Valle 3.
the city; most are red, with a Tribune and the Guardian Map 12 D4.
slot for mail within Rome on sale on the day of issue. Tel 069727 3136.
(Roma e provincia di Roma) The TrovaRoma supplement Open 9am–9pm daily.
and one for mail outside Rome in the Thursday edition of
(per tutte le altre destinazioni). La Repubblica is generally Post Offices
There are also some blue mail considered the main guide
boxes exclusively for foreign to what is happening in the Termini Station,
destinations (marked estero). capital. There is a useful section Via Giolitti 14.
Map 6 E4.
Vatican Post Tel 06488 0673.
Open 8am–7pm Mon–Fri
The Vatican postal service costs (to 1:30pm Jul–early Aug),
the same as regular mail, but is 8:25am–12:30pm Sat.
Vatican post office sign faster. Buy cards and stamps at
the post office near the Vatican Piazza San Silvestro 19.
Museums entrance, or in Piazza Map 5 A3 & 12 E1.
San Pietro. Letters bearing Vatican Tel 066973 7232.
stamps can only be posted Open 8:25am–7pm Mon–Fri,
Vatican postage stamps within Vatican city. 8:25am–12:30pm Sat.
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