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Costa Rica's recently privatized postal system is reasonably
efficient, though you may have problems sending and receiving letters
from remote areas. The most reliable place to send mail overseas from is
San José's Correo Central , or main post office, which is also the best
place to collect post. In most cases - especially in Limón province,
where mail is very slow - it's probably quicker to wait until you return
to San José and post mail from there. Opening hours for nearly all Costa
Rica's post offices are Monday to Friday from 7.30am to 5 or 5.30pm.
Those in San José and Liberia also have limited Saturday hours.
Telecommunications
The Costa Rican state electronics company, ICE (Instituto Costarricense
de Electricidad) provides international telephone, fax and Internet
services via RACSA , the telecommunications subsidiary. To make ...
The Costa Rican state electronics company, ICE (Instituto Costarricense
de Electricidad) provides international telephone, fax and Internet
services via RACSA , the telecommunications subsidiary.
To make international calls , you can call collect from any phone or
payphone in Costa Rica; simply dial 09 or 116 to get an English-speaking
operator, followed by the country code, area code and number. AT&T, MCI,
Sprint, Canada Direct or UK Direct calling-card holders can make credit-card
calls from payphones. It's not a good idea to use a payphone to make
international calls with colones - it's better to call from a hotel (though
this can be expensive), a local pulpería (general store) or from the San
José Radiográfica office, where you can also send and receive faxes, and
use directories. Microchip telephone cards allow you to use special
"Chip" payphones to make local calls ; you can make international calls
with the larger denomination cards but they won't give you much more
than three or four minutes' speaking time.
The country code for the whole of Costa Rica is 506. There are no area
codes and all phone numbers have seven digits.
Email
Most towns of any size in Costa Rica now have at least one Internet café
, while places popular with tourists will usually have many more;
charges are low, usually $0.75-$1 for 30 minutes. In addition, all Costa
Rican post offices - even the...
Most towns of any size in Costa Rica now have at least one Internet café
, while places popular with tourists will usually have many more;
charges are low, usually $0.75-$1 for 30 minutes. In addition, all Costa
Rican post offices - even the most rural - now offer Internet access
with prepaid cards which you can buy in the post office (300 colones for
30min, 500 for 1hr).
Many Costa Rican hotels and businesses now have email . If you don't
know an address, it's worth trying the hotel or establishment name,
followed by @racsa.co.cr - the usual suffix for email addresses in Costa
Rica.
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