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offering Wi-Fi hot spots. Some
are free of charge; others are
inexpensive. Stockholm Visitor
Center, Stockholm Arlanda
Airport and Central Station
Stockholm and Cityterminalen
are just some of the places in
Stockholm that offer free Wi-Fi.

Postal Services
The Swedish postal service has
an almost 400-year history, but
many Swedes think the service
has deteriorated in recent years.
Post offices have been closed
and replaced by a few large One of the country’s many Pressbyrån kiosks
postal centres, mainly for
companies. For the general Most international courier DIRECTORY
public, there are small service services – such as DHL, FedEx
points, primarily in supermarkets and TNT – are represented in Local and International
and at petrol stations. They have the cities, and special services Phone Calls
the advantage of longer opening are also operated by the
hours in the evenings and at Swedish post office, Posten. Telia customer services
week ends. The disadvantage is a Tel 0771-99 02 00.
frequent lack of space and TV and Radio ∑ telia.se
services. Perhaps the best service
is provided in remote areas by Most hotels provide a tele- Mobile Phones
mobile postal workers. Stamps vision in the room with
can be bought at post offices, both national and foreign The Phone House
shops, Pressbyrån kiosks and channels. The most frequently
tourist information offices. The used are the Swedish SVT1, Gallerian,
basic postage for a postcard or SVT2, TV3, TV4 and Channel 5, Kungsgatan 29,
letter under 50 g within Sweden as well as the international Stockholm.
is 7 Kr; for abroad the CNN, Sky News, BBC and Map 1 B4.
postage is 4 Kr. Postboxes Eurosport channels.
are painted blue for local SVT1 and 2 are state- Tel 0771-99 10 00.
letters and yellow for run public-service Telenor
other domestic and channels. SVT2
international mail. and TV4 broadcast ∑ telenor.se
Collection times are local programmes Telia
shown on the postbox Post office logo in the morning and
and sometimes take evening, including ∑ telia.se
place in the early weather forecasts.
afternoon. In large towns there There are also a number of Postal Services
are last-minute postboxes, which local radio stations, broad-
are emptied in the evenings. casting mainly inter national DHL
and Swedish music. P6, SR Tel 0771-345 345.
International broadcasts ∑ dhl.se
programmes in eight languages
(including English) on 89.6 MHz. FedEx
Tel 0200-252 252.
Newspapers and ∑ fedex.com/se
Magazines Posten
Major foreign newspapers Tel 020-23 22 21
and magazines can be bought (customer services).
in the cities, at airports and
at other transport hubs. ∑ posten.se
Pressbyrån kiosks, tobacconists, TNT
department stores and some
tourist infor mation offices Tel 020-960 960.
Yellow postbox for national and stock a limited selection of ∑ tnt.com/se
international, blue for local mail foreign publications.

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