receiving letters abroad
 

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how the Poste General (I think that's what it is called) works in practice? I am just about to get myself over to Morocco and someone wants to send me a letter. What's the surest way of getting it? (nothing valuable)

cheers,
Doug

Have your mail addressed to:

You
Poste Restante
CPO
City
Country

You can replace CPO (Central PO) with the name of a branch office, if you know its name and it's more convenient for you.

In the '80s I've used this extensively in NZ and in India, as well as other countries. Normally, I filled in a mail forwarding form before leaving a place, in case some mail arrived late. In one case in India mail got forwarded twice before catching up with me!

Sadly, these services co$t money in some countries these days.

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Salut from Southern France, the bikers' paradise,

Peter.

We used the above system in New Zealand and the States and it worked very well. As far as we know all our mail and there was alot of it, all arrived without a problem.

Not of much use in Morocco but, the another thing we did when travelling in the States, was to rent a mail box at 'Mail box's excetera' originally in Monterey, as an address to have a car we bought registered to, but also we had alot of post from the UK sent there. When we moved up North we paid a small additional fee and moved the account to Seatle.

cool, cheers.

Poste Restante works fine on Morocco, or get an American Express card, you can't use it many places, but you can get mail sent to their office to collect, more reliable than most post offices in sub sahara.

can anyone tell me if this system works for central and south america?

If so does it cost?

I have certain internet unfriendly rellies i want to stay in touch with, out with the paper and pen!

thanks

dan