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Travel Related
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MAIL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS |
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Other than in remote areas, communications in Panamá are good. Most
small towns have a post office and telephone office, so keeping in touch
with home is fairly easy.
Letters posted with the Correo Nacional (COTEL) cost US$0.35 to the US
and US$0.45 to Europe. They should reach either destination within a
week or two, though have been known to take far longer - it's best to
post them in Panamá City. Most post offices have an Entrega General
(Poste Restante, General Delivery) where you can receive mail - in
Panamá City your correspondent must specify the post office zone: the
most central is Zone 5, on Av Central/Via España. Post office opening
hours are generally from 7am to 6pm Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm on
Saturday.
Panamá's recently privatized telephone company is owned by Cable and
Wireless (C&W). Local phone calls are cheap, and there's a wide network
of modern payphones that take phonecards sold in shops and street stalls.
You can make international collect calls from these via the
international operator (dial 106), and both AT&T (dial 109) and MCI
(dial 108) can place collect or credit-card calls to the US. Otherwise,
C&W offices are the best place to make international calls or send faxes
. Hotels tend to overcharge for phone calls. Panamá's country code is
507; there are no regional codes for internal calls. As elsewhere,
there's a growing number of Internet cafés in the main towns.
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