Most public telephones operate on 25-cent coins. There is a reduced rate 1800-0900 Monday to Friday, and 1200 Saturday to 0900 Monday. For long-distance calls, telephone cards are available. Credit card telephones are to be found in larger centres. Full IDD is available.
Services are available in commercial bureaux and most hotels all day at locally agreed rates.
All mail from Canada to outside North America is by air. Stamps are available in hotels, chemists and railway stations, or in vending machines outside post offices and shopping centres. Poste Restante facilities are available. Intelpost is offered at main postal offices for satellite transmission of documents and photographs. Daily newspapers published in the larger population centres have a wide local and regional circulation.