Acknowledgement of receipt (A.R.)

The sender receives the acknowledgement of receipt attached to the mail item signed by the addressee or it’s consignee, thus confirming the receipt;

An additional price is charged;

The form is attached to the mail item, the letters “A.R.” must be written on the envelope

Advice of delivery in PRIORIPOST regime (PCP)

The sender gets the confirmation of the delivery by the acknowledgement of receipt in PRIORIPOST regime (PCP) form signed by the addressee, proxy or delegated person.

An additional price shall be cashed at posting for each mail item.

The postal acknowledgment of receipt form shall circulate in PRIORIPOST regime.

Addresses must be written correctly, completely and legibly, so that the mail items could be delivered at destination or returned to the sender; the writing shall not be in crayon or other writing instruments that do not assure the requested printing quality.

The addresses must be compactly written, without spaces between the letters and without spaces, on the length of the mail item.

The addresses shall be written in Latin and Arabic , without erasures, corrections or bolding.

The name of the destination locality and, as the case may be, the name of the country of destination, shall be written with capital letters.

Mail items accepted without being packed or packed in a material that does not allow the writing of the address and observations in question, the address shall be written on a self-adhesive label or on a paperboard or plate support, which shall be tightened to the item in question.

In order to fill out the addresses, the senders may create their own stamps containing the necessary information and may apply them on the mail item in the places provided in this respect.

The information of the postal address shall be written as follows:

• Addressee/Sender – name and surname, for individuals, or name in print for legal entities (it is recommended to write also the father’s initial in certain situations);

• name of the street (avenue, boulevard, street, alley etc.), building number, flat number, entrance, floor, apartment;

• zip code and locality ( for rural areas firstly is written the locality, followed by the municipality)

• county or district ( if the locality is the county seat and bears the same name as the county itself, the name of the county shall not be written)

Electronically monitored mail items and mail items for which preferential tariffs are granted for being sorted according to the zip code, shall be accepted at posting only if the zip code is written on them.

If the destination country uses other writing characters, it is recommended that the address is also written in those characters.

In order to identify the addressees (individuals) of domestic mail items which are not sent to their permanent residence, when writing their address there shall be mentioned:

• mail items sent at the addressee's working place: after the name and surname of the addressee, there must be written the exact name of the department/division and position of the addressee, followed by the name and postal address of the institution where the addresses works;

• mail items addressed to an addressee who is hospitalized or in a detention facility: after name and surname there shall be written any elements that allow the identification of the addressee, meaning the pavilion/ward/room (in case of hospitalization), date of birth and parents' names (in case of detention);

• temporary domicile at another individual's place: name and surname of the addressee, name surname, address of the person the addressee lives at (e.g. Gheorghe Nicolae at Petrescu Ilie, followed by the latter's address);

• "General delivery" mail items: the addressee's name and surname shall be written according to the personal information on the ID card and the contact point where the delivery must be picked up from, the zip code and county, written within the address;

• mail items sent to the P.O. Box : addressee's name and surname, the contact point where the PO Box is rented, number of the PO Box, zip code and county; (for mail items sent to an undisclosed PO Box, it is not necessary to write the name and surname of the addressee);

• mail items sent to addressees in military units: the name and surname of the addressee shall be preceded by the military rank and number of the military unit, contact point,zip code and destination county.

There shall not be admitted for posting insured mail items (insured content) addressed to addressees whose addresses or names are written with initials.

12 hours for mail items distributed within the same locality;

24 hours for mail items distributed between the county seats and counties;

36 hours between any other 2 localities.

On Satuardays, distribution of mail items is assured in county seat localities.

Specialized: postal subunits part of the PRIORIPOST network and the postal subunits from the rural areas.