How To Get A Post Office Box In Seychelles
This is a very easy process here in Seychelles. You only need some form of identification (ID card or passport), a deposit of 225 rupees, a monthly fee of 100 rupees which is paid per year (they made me pay until December it costed me only 400 rupees) and an application form. The person at the counter can help you through the process. She was extremely kind to me today.
You have to fill-out the following on the form:
- Name of applicant
- National Identity Card number
- Residential address
- Personal or business name
- Address of business
- Location of box
- Other person/business authorised to receive mails
- Phone number
Why Get A Post Office Box?
I don’t trust postmen/women. One of my friends told me that she knows a postman in her district who opens packages and sells the items in them. I don’t know if these things happen at the post office, but at least there’s less chance of that happening.
I hope.
My P.O. Box Story
I was really hesitant to ask them for a box today because everyone kept telling me how difficult it is to get one. So I guess I took their word for it. It might have been true though, because I’m actually in a new section that was built just recently.
Well over a decade ago my mum applied and got one. This was what my whole family was using for so many years. All my penpals, swap pals, friends, etc. used to send me snail mail to that box.
Unfortunately, it was “taken away” from me so I had to find an alternative.
Anyway, I have my own box now. I can start penpalling again, and I can finally resume to my viewcard swapping hobby. Yippee.
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