Post Offices and Letters
A post office is called a correio : they have bright yellow postboxes and signs. An imposing Correios e Telegrafos building will always be found in the centre of a city of any size, and from here you can send telegrams as well; but there are also small offices and kiosks scattered around which only deal with mail. Because post offices in Brazil deal with other things besides post, queues are often a problem. Save time by using a franking machine for stamps; the lines move much more quickly. Stamps ( selos) are most commonly simply available in two varieties - either for mailing within Brazil or abroad. A foreign postage stamp costs around 60c for either a postcard or a letter up to 10 grammes. It is very expensive to send parcels abroad - if you plan to cross into Paraguay consider sending packages from there, as it has much lower postal rates. Mail within Brazil takes three or four days, longer in the North and Northeast, while airmail letters to Europe and North America usually take about a week or sometimes even less. Surface mail takes about a month to North America, and three to Europe. Although the postal system is generally very reliable, it is not advisable to send valuables through the mail.
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