Communications services in New Zealand are generally first-rate, and excellent international networks make it pretty easy to keep in touch. The standard of media coverage sometimes leaves a little to be desired, but for the most part this is a well informed country with relatively sophisticated tastes
Mail
Post boxes
are white, black and red and found everywhere, usually with some indication of when and how often their contents are collected. Most New Zealand towns used to boast rather grand Victorian or Edwardian
post offices
in or near...
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Fax and email
Most post offices offer a
fax sending
service, charging a basic transaction fee of $2.50 plus a per page fee of $1.50 within New Zealand, $1.60 to Australia, $3 to North America and $4 to Europe and Asia. Faxes can also be sent from the vast...
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Phones
There are two
phone companies
in New Zealand: the formerly state-run
Telecom
, which still has a monopoly on public payphones and local calls, and
Clear
, which competes for long-distance and international business. There...
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Media
New Zealand has no
national daily newspaper
but it does have three pretenders: Auckland's
New Zealand Herald
, which can be found throughout the northern half of the North Island, Wellington's
The Dominion
which covers...
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