Lamp fittings are screw type. Full IDD is available. Calls can be made from post offices. Cheap rate applies between 1800-0800 Monday to Friday and all day Saturday and Sunday. These can be sent during opening hours from all post offices.
Stamps are available from hotels, slot machines and post offices.
A 5-figure postal code is used on all internal addresses. Smaller branches may close for lunch. Newspapers are free of government control. The most widely read of the weekly publications are Der Spiegel and Die Zeit . Some new or revamped newspapers, such as Berliner Kurier , have emerged out of eastern Germany and are competing well with western German papers.