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Postal Services
The Hungarian postal service
(Magyar Posta) is as bureau cratic
and inefficient today as it was
during Com munist times. If you
need to use a post office, there­
fore, set some time aside. Postage
stamps can also often be pur­
chased from newspaper kiosks
and souvenir shops. Sending a
postcard costs 335–390 forints
(under or just over €1.20) depen­
ding on the destination. Most
post offices are open Monday
to Friday from 8am to 6pm and
8am to 2pm on Saturday. For
urgent parcels, a courier service,
such as DHL or Federal Express, Newspaper kiosk, selling newspapers, magazines and phone cards
will be more reliable.
Addresses in Hungary, written all cable and satellite operators. DIRECTORY
with the postcode first, can There is also usually a variety
be confusing. See p297 for of German­language news and Communications
more information. entertainment channels.
There are literally hundreds International Directory
of radio stations in Hungary. Enquiries
Most play a mix of inter national Tel 199.
and local pop and rock music,
but there are also stations Postal services
dedicated to classical, jazz, Post Office (Magyar Posta)
folk music and more.
Dunavirág utca 2–6, Budapest.
Customer Service: Tel (40) 46 46
Newspapers and 46.. ∑ posta.hu
Magazines
Hungary’s leading newspapers Courier Services
are the quality broadsheets DHL
Népszava, Magyar Hírlap,
and the Magyar Nemzet, Tel (40) 45 45 45.
though there are hundreds ∑ dhl.hu
of other newspapers published Federal Express
around the country, many Tel (40) 98 09 80.
A Hungarian postbox, Budapest of them regional. ∑ fedex.com/hu
There is one English­language
TV and Radio
Hungarian publication, the Internet and Wi-Fi
Almost every hotel room in bi­weekly Buda pest Business
Hungary – even in budget Journal (BBJ), which provides Farger
hotels – now has a television financial and business news for Zoltán utca 18, Budapest.
equipped to receive a variety of Hungary. The Budapest Timeout Tel (20) 237 78 25.
domestic, national, cable or guide is a monthly entertain­
satellite channels. The widely ments listing magazine. Major ∑ farger.hu
available Hungarian television foreign publications can be Foreign Newspapers
station is the state­run MTV bought at central news paper
(not to be confused with the kiosks, rail way stations, the House of the World Press
music channel), which operates airport and at House of the Városház utca 3–5, Budapest.
several channels, while TV2 and World Press in Buda pest. Relay Tel (1) 317 13 11.
RTL Klub are the largest and Székes fehérvár and Relay
most popular private stations. Debrecen are two other Relay Debrecen
All imported programmes in suppliers. Foreign papers are Debrecen Station, Petőfi tér 12,
Hungary are dubbed into less widely available outside the Debrecen.
Hungarian, so visitors are more capital, apart from German
likely to be interested in BBC newspapers and magazines, Relay Székesfehérvár
World, CNN and EuroNews, the sometimes found in the Lake Székesfehérvár Station,
three English­language news Balaton resorts during the high Béke tér 3, Székesfehérvár.
channels usually carried by season summer holidays.

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