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How to send a parcel from your own letterbox in France

La Poste can pick up packages of up to 5kg from your home

Children in France can write to Father Christmas via La Poste

Letters can be sent up until December 20 and each will receive a response

‘Hand-delivering letters across France is slow and full of love’

The retiree dubbed The Humane Postman shares what delivering ‘important but not urgent’ messages has taught him about humanity

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Here are the 68 French towns where daily post deliveries are stopping

The trial is part of La Poste’s plans to adapt to lower levels of post being sent

French post office to launch trials into eliminating daily rounds

The move is one of several changes related to reorganising deliveries being tested around France. Unions say it is just another way of cutting jobs

France’s new digital timbre rouge: Will my letter be seen by staff?

The priority mail stamp is to be replaced by a scan-and-send process from January 1, prompting fears that postal workers will be able to read private letters

Risk of parcel theft increases in run up to Christmas in France

People who live in apartment blocks are most targeted with police calling for a change concerning who has access to master keys to unlock postboxes

Who has a key to get into my home letterbox in France?

All postmen and women have a special key that allows them to open most French letterboxes

How to send parcels from home via La Poste

It is possible to send packages or print postage stamps from home if you do not wish to visit the post office

France: La Poste hires 9,000 new staff in Christmas run-up

La Poste is set to hire double the number of temporary staff to cope with up to "four million parcels per day" before Christmas and extra delivery services but unions say this is not enough

La Poste reports 20,000 'errors' with parcels a day

A huge rise in post-Covid mail has seen a surge in delivery problems for La Poste – its Colissimo parcel service is listing more than 20,000 parcels late or missing each day.

French post admits errors and aims to improve parcel service

French post office La Poste has announced that it is working to improve its parcel delivery service, Colissimo, after a huge spike in traffic since the end of confinement has led to more than 20,000 delivery errors per day.

All post offices open in France this summer

France’s 7,700 post offices will stay open this summer, with an additional 200 seasonal service points, creating 2,000 seasonal jobs.

Covid-19: Use French post services from home

With one in ten post offices shut and people advised to only visit those if essential, it is useful to know about the many postal services available without visiting one.

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How to send a parcel from your own letterbox in France

Children in France can write to Father Christmas via La Poste

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Here are the 68 French towns where daily post deliveries are stopping

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