MAIL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Sending mail
The main post offices are open from Monday to Saturday until 1 o'clock 20.00, and on Sundays to 12.00. Yellow mailboxes have the word Posta. When sending parcels outside the country, you need to pay the export fee 20% its values.
Romanian Post Office is considered slow and unreliable – it will probably be more reliable to send correspondence from another country. Post office clerks are often unfamiliar with the fees for international mail, so it is better to buy stamps in the main offices of large cities. Sending a card costs on average 0,75-1,50 $. As experienced in this regard claim, only half of the parcels reach the addressees.
Receiving mail
Correspondence addressed to c / o poste restante No. 1, 70700 Bucharest is picked up at the post office at Matei Millo's strade, in a room with P.O.boxes, on weekdays from 7.30 do 20.00, and on Saturdays from 8.00 do 13.00.
Phone
Romanian telecommunications is considered the worst in Central and Eastern Europe. It's hard to say, or rightly so: seems to, that it works flawlessly on foreign lines, but on the other hand on 1000 inhabitants fall 111 telephone numbers, which is not a sign of an extensive network.
The surest way to get a foreign call is to use a private phone or one of the new ones, orange telephone boxes – by an automatic control panel. Usually there is no problem getting a connection.
To order a call at the telephone exchange, you must pay a deposit equal to the connection fee. If for any reason it is not implemented (no one answers, overloaded line) the returned deposit is reduced by the service fee (ok. 1 $). This can be very irritating, especially in a situation, when waiting for a call for two hours. To call at the expense of the interlocutor, you need to write a name, city and phone number of the requested person, then wait, until its application is communicated by a megaphone.
Rom tekom (state-owned monopolist) began to install orange cameras for international calls in larger cities.
Calling cards appear in larger cities. Major post offices sell cartela telefonica for 3,15 $ i 6,30 $. They allow you to avoid the troublesome standing in lines at the telephone exchange, but that one would be enough for a conversation with Poland, you need to be very brief.
Romania's area code is 040; then the number is dialed
plotting city (omitting the first zero) and finally the subscriber's number.
Fax and telegram
Submitting an international fax from the mail is easy and costly 3-5 $ for the page. The average fee for an international telegram is 0,20 $ for a word.
LOGS AND MAGAZINES
After the revolution, it appeared on the press market over 1000 new titles, thus accelerating the publishing crisis. Największe dzienniki to Adevarul i Tineretul Libera, supporting the PDSR, and Romania Libera, representing opposition voices. Evenimentul Zilei is a popular newspaper that fits the views of the majority.
Nine O’Clock, Romanian English-language magazine (1 Piata Presei Liber, main building, 1. floor, Bucharest), it is practically impossible to get. Foreign newspapers can be bought in big cities, np. Newsweek, Time i The Economist.
TIME
In Romania, the time is one hour earlier than in Poland, in Hungary or in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. However, there is no difference between Romanian and Bulgarian time. Romania changes to summer time at the end of March (clock hands move forward one hour), and returns to winter time at the end of September.
ELECTRICITY
Alternating current flows in the electrical network 50 Hz with voltage 220 V