{"id":386496,"date":"2025-07-04T11:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T09:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/?page_id=386496"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:48:09","slug":"send-receive-postmail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/en\/student-life\/international-relations-office\/international-student-desk\/daily-life\/send-receive-postmail\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending \/ Receiving post mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In France, post mail service is mainly run <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laposte.fr\/\">La Poste<\/a><\/em><\/p><p>If you want to <strong>send<\/strong> post mail, you will have to buy an envelope (in a <em>La Poste<\/em> office and supermarket\/supplies store), write the recipient address and stick a stamp (to buy in a <em>La Poste<\/em> office or tobacconist shop).<br>The price of the stamp depends on the weight and the destination (France\/abroad).<\/p><p>If you are concerned by the CAF (housing benefit) and\/or the French Heamth Insurance, you are going to <strong>receive<\/strong> post mail.<br>Then, don\u2019t forget to add your name on the mailbox or to indicate your room number on the <em>Address<\/em> part of your procedures.<\/p><p>If you want to <strong>receive packages<\/strong>, we advise you to let them delivered in a <em>Points Relais<\/em> (third place) to avoid theft in mail boxes.<\/p><p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"813\" class=\"wp-image-386405\" style=\"width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ri-2024-vq-courrier.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ri-2024-vq-courrier.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ri-2024-vq-courrier-112x140.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ri-2024-vq-courrier-520x650.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.ucly.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ri-2024-vq-courrier-494x618.jpg 494w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In France, post mail service is mainly run La PosteIf you want to send post mail, you will have to buy an envelope (in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":386479,"parent":386686,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-386496","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - 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