Laon
Travel Guide Europe France Picardie Laon
Introduction
Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in the Picardie region in northern France.
Neighbourhoods
Events and Festivals
Weather
Getting Around
By Car
By Public Transport
The town has the only fully automated municipal (as oposed to systems on airports etc.) cable car system in the world, called the Poma 2000.
By Foot
By Bike
Eat
Drink
Work
Learn
Keep Connected
Internet
Phone
See also International Telephone Calls
Post
La Poste in France is also referred to as the PTT (short for postes, télégraphes et téléphones). The mailboxes are painted bright yellow and often there is a slot for local city mail and another slot for "outside mail". Normally there is a queue in the post office, but most of the post offices have the self service machine installed which is quite easy to operate. Nowadays many of the tabac and even some of the souvenir shops also sell postage stamps. Normally an overseas postcard costs almost as much as sending a letter.
Post offices are generally open from 8:00am to 7:00pm Monday through Friday, and 8:00am to noon on Saturdays. Apart from the basic job of mailing letters, most of the post offices do some banking activities also and some even have photocopy machines and cyber cafes for internet access.
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