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Communications in Russia have improved greatly in recent years. Most
post offices are open Mon-Sat 8am-7pm. All district post offices have
poste restante ( do vostrébovaniya ) services. Both Moscow and St
Petersburg have excellent express-letter post companies, such as Post
International and Westpost, which despatch mail via Finland or the US
for moderate sums.
Street phones are good for local and international calls. To use them
you need a phonecard (available in 25, 50, 100, 200, 400 and 1000 units
from newspaper kiosks and post offices). Moscow's public phones are less
numerous and less efficient than those in St Petersburg. Phone booths in
airports and major hotels aren't always run by the city phone network,
and are much more expensive. You can buy cards for these phones on the
spot or use your Amex or Visa card. By far the cheapest option in St
Petersburg (with off-peak discounts) is the Telephone Service Card,
usable from any tone-dial phone (available in 300, 600, 1200, 3000 and
6000 units). Mobile phones abound in both cities, and GSM users will
have no trouble plugging in to the local system. Email and Internet
access is offered cheaply in a number of Internet cafés.
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