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There are post-offices in all the cities and larger towns.
The main post-office in Chania has moved to Peridou Street (around the corner
of Kydonias Street) and is open from 7.00 am to 8.00 pm Monday to Friday and
Saturday morning.
The main post-office in Rethymnon is at Moatsou St. and open
from 8.00 am to 2.00 pm Monda to Saturday.
The mail to and from European countries is quite fast, about 2 to
4 days but some letters can also - inexplicably - take weeks.
If you need to send something in a hurry, I have noticed that by
sending it registered (cheap at around Euro 2.50 extra) it seems
to get treated as an express letter.
You can also buy stamps at kiosks (and many shops selling postcards)
but will need to pay an extra 10%, well worth it if you want to avoid
the sometimes long queues at post-office counters.
A letter to European countries (up to 20g) costs Euro 0.65
Some mailboxes seem to get emptied only occasionally (and some very
rarely) so if you want to play it safe put them in the post-office
letterboxes.
Sending something up to 2 kg is considered a letter. If you send
anything over 2 kg you will have to submit to an infuriatingly stupid
and senseless bureaucratic rule: you must present the packet open
at the counter. They are not at all interested in looking at what
is inside (there are after all no more customs within the EU) but
they have to do it. Then you need to seal it in a hurry because people
are queuing behind you.
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