Postal services within Brazil are cheap, though sending airmail abroad is expensive. The phone network, too, is impressive, especially considering the size of the country: public phones are everywhere, most places can be dialled direct and rates are low. Brazil is fast hooking up to the Internet, and you'll come across cybercafés and Internet cabins in the most unlikely of small towns
Post offices and letters
A
post office
is called a
correio
: they have bright yellow postboxes and signs. An imposing
Correios e Telégrafos
building will always be found in the centre of a city of any size, and from here you can send telegrams...
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Telephones
Public telephones
are called
orelhões,
"big ears", after their distinctive conch-shaped covers. They come in two varieties: red for local calls and blue for inter-urban. These days, phones are operated mostly by
...
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Email and the Internet
Like most rapidly developing nations, Brazil has latched on to the Internet, with many hotels and businesses now online. Public access is not so widely available, although all cities and many towns do now have cybercafés (listed in the...
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