"Post Office Blues you'll sing in Rome" Top 5 Page for this destination Do As Romans Do Tip by icunme

Do NOT spend an eternity in the Eternal City Post Office trying to buy stamps and/or send your post cards - and it could be a major undertaking as the Italian Post Office serves as a bank as well - people receive checks and pay bills and there are long lines to mail packages.. Buy stamps at the Tabacchi where you buy your bus/metro tickets and pop them in the red postal boxes you see on the outside of buildings - sometimes right there outside the Tabacchi shop. Post card stamps cost Eur 0.80.
OK - here's another "nono" story - I have to laugh, with a mind's eye view of my nono instructing me as we mailed letters to Verona from America - "open the mailbox door - shout loudly down to the inside 'ITS GOING TO VERONA' or it won't get there." I think I was about 10 before I stopped shouting into mailboxes. Then, because he laughed so much, I continued to do it long after I knew better - it was worth the strange looks people gave me because he got such a kick out of it all.