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Most post offices - identified by a yellow sign saying
Postamt
- are open Monday to Friday 8am to noon and 2 to 6pm; those in larger towns often stay open during lunchtime, in addition to a couple of hours on Saturday morning (8-10am). Vienna, and cities like Graz, Salzburg and Innsbruck, have at least one post office that is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Addresses of these are given in the relevant parts of the guide.
Air mail ( Flugpost ) between Austria and the UK usually takes three or four days, about a week to reach the US, and ten days to Australia and New Zealand. For stamps ( Briefmarken ) for postcards within the EU, you may be able to go to a tobacconist ( Tabak ), though for anything more complicated or further afield, you'll probably have to go to a post office in order to have your letter or parcel weighed.
Poste restante
(
Postlagernd
) letters can be sent to any post office, if you know the address. To collect mail, go to the counter marked
Postlagernde Sendungen
- mail should be addressed using this term rather than "poste restante". It will be held for thirty days (remember to take your passport when going to collect it). Other useful information
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