Postal Services
Buy stamps at the post office or from newsstands. Letters go in the orange boxes around the city. Air Mail to Europe is 9 Kc for a letter, 8 Kc for a postcard. Air Mail to overseas is 12 Kc for a letter, 8 Kc for a postcard. Do not forget to write Air Mail on the envelope. Registration service is 42 Kc extra to Europe and 45 Kc extra to overseas.
Post Offices
There are a bunch of post offices open on weekdays from 8 am to 6 pm. The main post office at Jindrisska 14 (close to the metro station Mustek) is open daily from 7 am to 8 pm. There is a queue up system installed in winter 1999. You are supposed to use the Q-matic machine, at the door to the huge hall, to get the queue up slip. It is easy, just follow the instructions in English above each Q-matic machine. Choose the service, press button, take the slip and go inside the hall. Wait your number on the display at the a counter.Non stop post office is located next to the railway station Praha Masarykovo Nadrazi (close to the metro station Namesti Republiky) at Hybernska 15.
Zip Code Search
The Czech postal system uses five digit zip code. Always use the zip code on each letter to the Czech Republic. Use our search engine to find the correct zip code of the place you are sending a letter to.There are 15.500 cities, villages and other places throughout the Czech Republic in our database. All names are listed in its original form but without hooks and strokes (e.g. Prague is listed as Praha).
Phone
Phone card is good for local, long distance and international calls. The fees are about $1 a minute to the USA and Australia. You can also use the off peak xCall program (weekdays 5pm-7am and 24 hours on weekends) and dial 052 followed by the country code, area code and the number. In this case you will pay only 8 Kc a minute to the USA. You can also use pre-paid phone card called xCard, which is good for calling from any phone within the Czech Republic. You will pay only 3 Kc a minute for local calls, 15 Kc to the US, 23 Kc to Australia. Cards (300 Kc, 500 Kc, 750 Kc or 1000 Kc) are sold in post office and newsstands. Remember, all prepaid phone cards expires 12 months after first usage and will not be refunded.To call out of the Czech Republic dial 00 followed by the country code, area code and the number. For the international operator dial 1181. The country code to the Czech Republic is 420, to Slovakia 421.
The main public telephone bureau and the main fax/telegram bureau is located at Politickych Veznu 4 (close to the metro station Mustek) and is open 24 hours a day.
Cellular Phones
Probably everybody in Prague can use the cellular phone now. There are three cellular phone providers: Eurotel, T-Mobile (former Paegas), Oscar and they cover the whole country with GSM 900 MHz networks.Eurotel provides rooming for foreign GSM 900 MHz users. Do not forget to ask your local provider for rates before leaving. You can not use neither GSM 1800 MHz nor PCS 1900 MHz cellular phone there. But you can purchase or lease a new GSM 900 MHz one for reasonable price. A new phone will run you in the neighborhood of $100. Three day leasing rate is $30. For more information visit Eurotel stand at Prague Airport or call 267 016 666 while you are in Prague.
Be careful, you are not allowed to use any phone without hands free set while driving the car. It is the law since January 1, 2001.
Major Phone Numbers Change
Czech Telecom made major change of all phone numbers within the whole country on September 22, 2002.
Before this change all phone numbers were in the following format: country code (420), area code (e.g. 02 to Prague, 05 to Brno, 019 to Plzen...) and phone number (e.g. 12345678). When you were calling from Brno to Brno you had to dial just only the phone number without any prefix 12345678. But for calling from Prague to Brno you had to add area code and dial 05-12345678. From the abroad you had to dial country code, area code without the first zero and the phone number 420-5-12345678. It was a little bit confusing.
Now after the major change made on September 22 you have to dial area code in front of any number but always without the first zero. When you are calling from Brno to Brno you had to dial 5-12345678. For calling from Prague to Brno you have to dial also 5-12345678. From the abroad it is the same as it used to be 420-5-12345678.
Cellular phone numbers as 0602-123456 are the same but you have to skip the first 0 now. So you dial 602-123456 from Czech or 420-602-123456 from the abroad.
One more thing. Some phone numbers outside the big cities have been changed completely. If you have trouble to get connection just dial 1181 and English speaking operator will tell you the new number if you know the old one.
All phone numbers presented at CzechSite has been updated to the new ones.
SMS Gate
If you have your Czech friend's cellular phone number you can send a SMS short message right to his or her phone.
Cyber Cafes
Recently there are a lot of cyber cafes in Prague and the number is expanding every month. If you are in the city center we can recommend:
Probably the most professional cyber cafe in the city. Easy accessible (close to the metro station Jiriho z Podebrad) with a lot of computers and fast connection. Non smokers only. Drinks available but no real food.
Cyber cafe and cyber club as well. Easy accessible (close to the metro station IP Pavlova), fast connection, a lot of computers, non smokers only. Drinks available but no real food.
Nothing special, no food just only drinks. Good for smokers!
Easy accessible (close to the metro station Andel).
Search Engines
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