Russian Post. Packets and parcels

Mail items are divided into the categories depending on collection, transmission, processing and delivery.

Ordinary mail items are ones received without senders’ receipt delivery and delivered to the addressee without receipt.

Registered mail items(ordinary, registered, insured) are ones received with sender’s receipt delivery and delivered to the addressee with his delivery receipt.

Insured - mail items are ones received with content cost estimating fixed by the sender. It is given out to post office closed or opened.

You can trace postal item transmission if you know postal item identity code (applying within Russia and consisting of 14 symbols or international one) or its receipt number.

Registered postal items can be sent with content list, receipt notification and cash on delivery.

Airmail items are ones received to be sent by air transport partly or all way through.

Collection, transmission and delivery of letters and postcards are the main postal services.

Postal items' packaging, filling content lists, addresses on letterforms to parcels, address and message (information) filling in, rent of plastic mailing box, storage of packets and parcels, postal items' delivery and other services refer to extra-services for the customers. All extra-services are paid apart but not all post offices provide this service

* Term «delivery» implies that post performs home delivery of postal items for addresser (authorized person) directly at home, post office, by post office box in the house, in the street or at special places.

International reply coupons issued by the International Reply Project Group of the Universal Post Union can be received as payment for international mail items. As a rule each of them has a date stamp of a foreign postal company who sold the coupon. As an exceptional case non-stamped coupon should be accepted as well.

When postal item is sent the reply coupons are exchanged for stamps on the basis of an ordinary international letter that weighs up to 20 g sent by air transport. The coupon is to be marked with the date stamp.