SUMMARY

Mail. Sending a postcard home will cost you 2,500 rubles ($0.43), a letter - 3,500 rubles ($0.61)

Central Post Office (Glavpochtamt) is at Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa 9. Over 400 local post-offices throughout the city

Express Mail services are offered by:

• EMS Garantpost - Main office: Konnogvardeisky Bulvar (Boulevard) 4, entrance 2, 311-96-71, 311-78-21, fax: 311-92-88. Also: express mail counters:

1. Central Post Office (Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa 9), window 48
2. Post Office # 11 (Nevsky Prospekt 42, Metro: Nevsky Prospekt/Gostiny Dvor)
3. Post Office # 28 (Liteiny Prospekt 29, Metro: Chernyshevskaya)
4. Hotel Moskva (Ploschad Aleksandra Nevskovo 1, Metro: Ploschad Aleksandra Nevskovo)
5. The International Business Center (Ploschad Proletarskoy Diktatury 6)

• DHL Worldwide Express

1. Address: Nevsky Prospekt 57, Nevskij Palace Hotel (Metro: Mayakovskaya), 325-61-00, fax: 325-61-16, e-mail: dhlled@sovam.com
2. Address: Izmailovsky Prospekt 4, 326-64-00, fax: 326-64-10, e-mail: dhlled@sovam.com>

• TNT Express Worldwide - Liteiny Prospekt 50 (Metro: Chernyshevskaya), tel./fax 273-60-07
• Federal Express - Ulitsa Mayakovskovo 2 (Metro: Mayakovskaya), 279-12-87
• UPS - United Parcel Service - Ulitsa Saltykova-Schedrina 31 (Metro: Chernyshevskaya), 327-85-40, fax: 275-44-05

Telephone

The country code for Russia is 7, the area code for St. Petersburg is 812

To make international call dial: 8 (wait for a dial tone) - 10 - country code - area code - number (at some hotels you have to dial 9 to get the external dial tone)

To make a long distance call within Russia dial: 8 (wait for a dial tone) - area code - number

Calling card calls and collect (reverse charge) calls are possible

Cellular phones are available from North-West GSM, Delta Telecom and Fora Communications

Fax: You can send and receive faxes at Central Post Office, Central Telegraph Office and the Business Communications Center (see addresses below) and at your hotel's business center

E-mail and Internet services

You can send and receive e-mail at:

• Business Communication Center (Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa 3-5, Metro: Nevsky Prospekt/Gostiny Dvor)
• Nevalink counter # 41 at St. Petersburg Railway Agency (Naberezhnaya Kanala Griboyedova 24, Metro: Nevsky Prospekt/Gostiny Dvor)
• "Tetris" Internet Cafe (Ulitsa Cherniakhovskovo 23, Metro: Ligovsky Prospekt)
• Central Post Office (Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa 9)
• Central Telegraph Office (Pochtamtskaya Ulitsa 15)