Post office hours: 8am - noon and 2pm - 6pm; a few main post offices in big cities are open 24 hours.
Letter postage up to 2kg:
Within Austria: Euro 0.51 - 3.27
Europe: priority: Euro 0.51 - 18.17; non-priority: 0.73 - 10.17
Worldwide: priority: Euro 1.09 - 32.70; non-priority: 1.02 - 18.17
Postcards: 0.51
Parcels up to 31.5kg:
Within Austria: Euro 3.56 - 12.72
Worldwide: basic price is Euro 10.90 per kg. Surcharges per kg vary according to zones and range from Euro 0.73 - 6.54.
Phone calls within Austria are graduated and cheapest between 8pm and 6am and on weekends. Public pay phones accept coins of 10, 20 and 50 Cent and 1 and 2 Euro.
Euro 3.60 and Euro 6.90 phone cards are available at post office.
International access number from Austria to: Netherlands: 0031, Italy: 0039, Switzerland: 0041, France: 0033, Great Britain: 0044
International access number for Austria from Germany, Italy, Switzerland etc.: 0043
To direct-dial abroad, first telephone the overseas access code (00), then the appropriate country code, then the relevant area code minus the initial zero, and finally the subscriber number.
Directory of telephone numbers:
Austria and Germany: 11811
Foreign countries (minus Germany): 11812
