You should experience no problems with communications either within Britain or calling from abroad; the only difficulty you're likely to encounter is queues at the post office. The mail service is quick and generally efficient, public payphones are numerous, and the outlets offering internet access are ever increasing
Phones
Most public
payphones
are operated by BT and, at least in the towns, are widespread. Many payphones take all coins from 10p upwards (minimum payment 20p), although an increasing proportion only accept
phonecards
, available from...
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Email
A useful way of keeping in touch while travelling is using one of the
free internet email sites
that can be accessed from anywhere, for example YahooMail and Hotmail - accessible through
and
. Once you've set up an...
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Mail
Virtually all
post offices
are open Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm, Sat 9am-12.30 or 1pm; in small communities you'll find sub-post offices operating out of general stores; these are open standard post-office hours, even if the shop itself is open for...
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